Exhaled and nasal nitric oxide is increased in laboratory animal allergy

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 876-880

  Adisesh, L A ^a,c   Kharitonov, S A ^a   Yates, D H ^a   Snashell, D C ^a   Newman Taylor, A J ^a   Barnes, P J ^a,b  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal allergy; Asthma; Nitric oxide; Occupational disease

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SENSITIZATION; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RABBITS; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RATS; RESPIRATION; SKIN TESTS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0031841427     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.1998.00332.x     Document Type: Article

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