Respiratory allergy: What are the uncertainties?

Toxicology

Volumn 181-182, Issue , 2002, Pages 305-310

  Karol, Meryl H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Asthma; Hygiene hypothesis; Lymphocyte subsets; Respiratory allergy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IRRITANT AGENT; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BEHAVIOR; CELL MATURATION; COMPUTER; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; FLY ASH; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LIFESTYLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEVISION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VIRUS;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0037184787     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(02)00298-6     Document Type: Article

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