The effect of suplatast tosilate on the patients with atopic dermatitis - Relationship between clinical symptoms and immunological parameters

Japanese Journal of Allergology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1065-1073

  Higashi, Naoyuki ^a   Niimi, Yayoi ^a   Aoki, Mikako ^a   Fujimoto, Kazuhisa ^a   Suzuki, Kayano ^a   Numano, Kayoko ^b   Kawana, Seiji ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL MUSASHI KOSUGI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Eosinophil; Eosinophil cationic protein; Severity score; Suplatast tosilate

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 5; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUPLATAST TOSYLATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOLOGY; INSOMNIA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PRURITUS; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; ARYLSULFONATES; BLOOD PROTEINS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-5; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; RIBONUCLEASES; SULFONIUM COMPOUNDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347694547     PISSN: 00214884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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