Who's Who at the Arizona Respiratory Center

Selected Publications

• Schweiger A, Stern D, Baldini M, Lohman IC, Martinez FD, Halonen M. Differences in proliferation of the hematopoietic cell lineTF-1 and cytokine production by peripheral blood leukocytes induced by two naturally occurring forms of human interleukin-3. J Allergy Clin Immunol 107:505-10 (2001).
• Brown MA, Rad PY, Halonen MJ. Method of birth alters interferon-gamma and interleukin-12 production by cord blood mononuclear cells. Pediatric Allergy Immunol. 14:106-111 (2003).
• Krishnan S, Craven M, Welliver R, Ahmad N, Halonen M. Differences in innate and adaptive immune responses to respiratory syncytial virus in adult and newborn mononuclear cells. J Infect Dis. 188:433-9. (2003).
• Guerra S, Lohman IC, LeVan T, Wright A, Martinez F, Halonen M. The differential effect of genetic variation on soluble CD14 levels in human plasma and milk. J Reprod Immunol 52(3):204-11(2004).
• Stern DA, Lohman IC, Wright AL, Taussig L, Martinez FD, Halonen M: Dynamic changes in sensitization to specific aeroallergens in children raised in a desert environment. Clin Exper Allergy 34(10):1563-69 (2004).
• Kurzius-Spencer M, Halonen M, Lohman IC, Martinez FD, Wright AL. Prenatal factors associated with the development of eczema in the first year of life. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 16:18-26 (2005).

Funding Sources

• NIH R01 AI1061811
  Microbial Innate Immunity in Asthma Pathogenesis
  Current Year: $357,000
• NIH P01 HL 67672
  SCOR in Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Asthma (F Martinez is Program Director) Current Year $990,000
  M Halonen is Project Director of Project 2: Developmental Mechanisms of Early Life Eczema.
  Current year for P2
• NIH R01 AI 42268
  Immunologic Pathways to Childhood Asthma
  A Wright, P.I.; M Halonen, Co-PI
  Current year $468,000