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Contributing factors to the pathobiology of asthma. The Th1/Th2 paradigm.
Clinics in chest medicine - 1 Jun 2000
Colavita A M, Reinach A J, Peters S P
Abstract excerpt
CD4+ "helper" T-lymphocytes in murine and human models have been divided into Th1 and Th2 subclasses, characterized by the profile of cytokines they secrete: INF-gamma (and perhaps IL-2 and TNF-beta) by Th1 cells, and IL-4 (and perhaps IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13) by Th2 cells. Although a strict division into Th1 and Th2 phenotypes in humans (unlike murine systems) may not be possible, the asthmatic diathesis in...
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