Maternal Influences over Offspring Allergic Responses

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Cook Mills, Joan M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Corticosterone; Dendritic cells; Fetus; Neonate; Tocopherol

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; VITAMIN;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ASTHMA; BREAST MILK; DENDRITIC CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84921835751     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: 15346315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-014-0501-1     Document Type: Review

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