Elucidation of pathways driving asthma pathogenesis: Development of a systems-level analytic strategy

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Walker, Michael L ^a   Holt, Kathryn E ^b,c   Anderson, Gary P ^a   Teo, Shu Mei ^a,b   Sly, Peter D ^d   Holt, Patrick G ^c,d   Inouye, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Birth cohort; Childhood; Epidemiology; Immune function; Systems biology; Virus infection

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; MATERNAL SMOKING; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS INFECTION; WHEEZING;

EID: 84919644827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00447     Document Type: Article

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