Orally administered β-glucan attenuates the Th2 response in a model of airway hypersensitivity

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Burg, Ashley R ^a,b   Quigley, Laura ^a   Jones, Adam V ^c   O’Connor, Geraldine M ^a,d   Boelte, Kimberly ^a   McVicar, Daniel W ^a   Orr, Selinda J ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY DENTAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Eosinophils; Th2; Glucan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976288809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2501-1     Document Type: Article

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