Antifungal immune reactivity in nasal polyposis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 7275-7281

  Pitzurra, Lucia ^a   Bellocchio, Silvia ^a   Nocentini, Angela ^a   Bonifazi, Pierluigi ^a   Scardazza, Raffaele ^a   Gallucci, Luigi ^a   Stracci, Fabrizio ^a   Simoncelli, Costantino ^a   Bistoni, Francesco ^a   Romani, Luigina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NOSE POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADULT; AGED; ASPERGILLUS; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL POLYPS; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 9244240296     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.12.7275-7281.2004     Document Type: Article

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