Development of an allergy test model: Activation of human mast cells with potentially allergenic substances

Toxicology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 91-96

  Gospos, Annette ^a   Dreikhausen, Ursula ^b   Dartsch, Dorothee C ^a   Szamel, Marta ^b   Hockertz, Stefan ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Institute of Clinical Pharmacology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergen; Histamine; Human allergy test model; IgE antibody; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT STEM CELL FACTOR;

ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ANTIBODY FORMATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MAST CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS;

EID: 0035860637     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(01)00444-9     Document Type: Article

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