Natural course of serum-specific immunoglobulin E and immunoglobulin G4 for a span of eight years in untreated patients with perennial allergic rhinitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 382-385

  Ohashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakai, Yoshiaki ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^a   Okamoto, Hideki ^a   Kakinoki, Yasushi ^a   Masamoto, Tateo ^a   Tanaka, Ayaki ^a   Hayashi, Motoyo ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Perennial allergic rhinitis; Specific immunoglobulin E; Specific immunoglobulin G4

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; FEMALE; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTHERAPY; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ACTIVE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MITES; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; TREES;

EID: 0030993020     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199703000-00020     Document Type: Article

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