Allergic disorders: A model for establishing how to prevent common disease

Allergology International

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 61-68

  Yamasaki, Akiko ^a,d,e   Cheng, Lei ^a,f   Fukuda, Sanae ^a   Chinami, Masanobu ^b   Fujita, Daisuke ^c   Wasserman, Danuta ^e   Shirakawa, Taro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allergy; Hygiene hypothesis; IgE; Interleukin 13; Interleukin 4; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CHILD; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DUST; ECZEMA; FOOD; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; JAPAN; MITE; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 3142557815     PISSN: 13238930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1592.2004.00333.x     Document Type: Review

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