IgE-mediated sensitisation, rhinitis and asthma from occupational exposures: Smoking as a model for airborne adjuvants?

Toxicology

Volumn 216, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 87-105

  Nielsen, Gunnar D ^a   Olsen, Ole ^a   Larsen, Søren T ^a   Løvik, Martinus ^b   Poulsen, Lars K ^c   Glue, Christian ^c   Brandorff, Nanna P ^a   Nielsen, Pia J ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d The Danish Environmental Protection Agency EPA   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adjuvant effect; Allergy; Hazard identification; Risk assessment; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ACID ANHYDRIDE; ALLERGEN; DYE; ENZYME; HAPTEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INORGANIC SALT; ISPAGULA; LATEX; PLATINUM; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; COFFEE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FLUOR; GRAIN DUST; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA FOOD; SENNA; SENSITIZATION; SMOKING;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RHINITIS; SMOKING;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PLANTAGO OVATA; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SENNA;

EID: 28344444429     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2005.07.022     Document Type: Review

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