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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 184, 期 4, 页码 1663-1674出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0902185
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- U.S. Department for Veterans Affairs
- National Institutes of Health [P01 HL076383, R01 HL097360]
Asthma is a common, disabling inflammatory respiratory disease that has increased in frequency and severity in developed nations. We review studies of murine allergic airway disease (MAAD) and human asthma that evaluate the importance of Th2 cytokines, Th2 response-promoting cytokines, IL-17, and proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in MAAD and human asthma. We discuss murine studies that directly stimulate airways with specific cytokines or delete, inactivate, neutralize, or block specific cytokines or their receptors, as well as controversial issues including the roles of IL-5, IL-17, and IL-13R alpha 2 in MAAD and IL-4R alpha expression by specific cell types. Studies of human asthmatic cytokine gene and protein expression, linkage of cytokine polymorphisms to asthma, cytokine responses to allergen stimulation, and clinical responses to cytokine antagonists are discussed as well. Results of these analyses establish the importance of specific cytokines in MAAD and human asthma and have therapeutic implications. The journal of Immunology, 2010, 184: 1663-1674.
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