Childhood asthma: Causes, risks, and protective factors; a role of innate immunity

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Noutsios, Georgios T ^a   Floros, Joanna ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar macrophages; Childhood asthma; Dendritic cells; Epigenetics; Innate immunity; Preterm delivery; Pulmonary surfactant proteins; Respiratory distress syndrome; SP A; T helper cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; GAMMA INTERFERON; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERLEUKIN 9; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG; MICRORNA; OMALIZUMAB; OZONE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D; THEOPHYLLINE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TOBACCO SMOKE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ASTHMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BREAST FEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURITY; RACE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; IMMUNOLOGY; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFANT, PREMATURE; LIFE STYLE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN D; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84931334562     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2014.14036     Document Type: Review

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