Article
Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus II-induced interleukin-4 and interferon-gamma expression by freshly isolated lymphocytes of atopic individuals.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Sept 1994
Byron K A, O'Brien R M, Varigos G A, Wootton A M
Abstract excerpt
Cytokines are known to play a major role in mediating many of the immunological and pathological features of allergic disease. Much of our understanding of cytokine production in response to allergens has come from studying allergen-specific T cell clones following long-term in vitro culture. Thi...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigens, Dermatophagoides
- Base Sequence
- Dust
- Glycoproteins
- Humans
- Hypersensitivity, Immediate
- Immunoglobulin E
- Interferon-gamma
- Interleukin-4
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Mites
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Th1 Cells
- Th2 Cells