Can helminth antigens be exploited therapeutically to downregulate pathological Th1 responses?

Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1184-1191

  Raine, Tim ^a   Zaccone, Paola ^a   Dunne, David W ^a   Cooke, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Helminth; Hygiene hypothesis; Immunoregulation; Immunotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; CD20 ANTIBODY; CD209 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; ES 62; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 10; RITUXIMAB; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL POLARITY; DOWN-REGULATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 9144229617     PISSN: 14724472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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