Oral prednisone suppresses allergic but not irritant patch test reactions in individuals hypersensitive to nickel

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 298-303

  Anveden, Ingegärd ^a   Lindberg, Magnus ^a,e   Andersen, Klaus E ^b   Bruze, Magnus ^c   Isaksson, Marléne ^c   Liden, Carola ^a   Sommerlund, Mette ^b   Wahlberg, Jan E ^d   Wilkinson, John D ^e   Willis, Carolyn M ^e  

^a Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^e Dept Occup and Environ Dermatol ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Corticosteroids; Nickel; Nonanoic acid; Patch test reactivity; Placebo; Prednisone; Sodium lauryl sulfate; Suppression

Indexed keywords

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; NICKEL; NICKEL SULFATE; NONANOIC ACID; PETROLATUM; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; PATCH TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALLERGENS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MALE; NICKEL; PATCH TESTS; PREDNISONE;

EID: 3042849251     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2004.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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