Eosinophils

Nancy A. Lee, Mark V. Dahl, Elizabeth A. Jacobsen, Sergei I. Ochkur

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInflammation and Allergy Drug Design
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages107-121
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9781444330144
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 27 2011

Keywords

  • Allergic, nonatopic asthma - allergic asthma, observed in atopic patients
  • Asthma in humans, three groups - nonatopic allergic asthma, asthma associated with allergies and atopic asthma
  • Eosinophil numbers, increasing in presence - of allergic disease, as asthma, AD and hay fever
  • Eosinophil presence, in airway allergic disease - and inflammation in respiratory tract
  • Eosinophils and T cells - cooperating in asthmatic inflammation
  • Eosinophils and asthma - disease of lungs and airways, pathologies outside lungs, as well
  • Eosinophils, classical view of eosinophils - as destructive effector cells, killing cells or tissues indiscriminately
  • Nonallergic asthma, not often responsive - to prednisone treatment
  • T cells, and eosinophils - key immune modulators and remodeling agents in asthma
  • T cells, integral role - in asthmatic inflammation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  • General Medicine

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