Impact of asthma, environmental exposures and ethnicity on functional responsiveness to Toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation in children

TLRs play a key role in initiating innate immunity and in regulating the nature of the adaptive immune response. We hypothesized that functional responsiveness to TLR stimulation differs in clinically; environmentally; ethnically distinct pediatric populations. PBMC obtained from 272 children were...

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Main Author: Lissitsyn, Yuriy V
Other Authors: HayGlass, Kent (Immunology)
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2765