Altered reactivity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in patients with atopic dermatitis: Pathologic factor or symptom?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 840, Issue , 1998, Pages 747-754

  Buske Kirschbaum, A ^a   Jobst, S ^a   Hellhammer, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECZEMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRURITUS; SKIN ALLERGY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0032078348     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09613.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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