Publication Date:
1998-12-18
Description:
The pathogenesis of asthma reflects, in part, the activity of T cell cytokines. Murine models support participation of interleukin-4 (IL-4) and the IL-4 receptor in asthma. Selective neutralization of IL-13, a cytokine related to IL-4 that also binds to the alpha chain of the IL-4 receptor, ameliorated the asthma phenotype, including airway hyperresponsiveness, eosinophil recruitment, and mucus overproduction. Administration of either IL-13 or IL-4 conferred an asthma-like phenotype to nonimmunized T cell-deficient mice by an IL-4 receptor alpha chain-dependent pathway. This pathway may underlie the genetic associations of asthma with both the human 5q31 locus and the IL-4 receptor.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897229/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897229/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Grunig, G -- Warnock, M -- Wakil, A E -- Venkayya, R -- Brombacher, F -- Rennick, D M -- Sheppard, D -- Mohrs, M -- Donaldson, D D -- Locksley, R M -- Corry, D B -- 03344/PHS HHS/ -- 47412/PHS HHS/ -- K08 HL003344/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32 HL07185/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 18;282(5397):2261-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9856950" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adoptive Transfer
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Allergens/immunology
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Animals
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Asthma/genetics/*immunology/pathology/physiopathology
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Bronchial Hyperreactivity
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Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/cytology
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5
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Goblet Cells/pathology
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Humans
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Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments
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Interleukin-13/antagonists & inhibitors/genetics/pharmacology/*physiology
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Interleukin-13 Receptor alpha1 Subunit
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Interleukin-4/genetics/pharmacology/*physiology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred BALB C
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Ovalbumin/immunology
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Phenotype
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Receptors, Interleukin/genetics/immunology/physiology
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Receptors, Interleukin-13
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Receptors, Interleukin-4/genetics/physiology
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/pharmacology
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Th2 Cells/immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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