Low-dose endotoxin in allergic asthmatics: Effect on bronchial and inflammatory response to cat allergen

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 795-802

  Sohy, C ^a,b,c   Pons, F ^c   Casset, A ^a,c   Chesnard, M P ^d   Lieutier Colas, F ^a,c   Meyer, P ^c   Pauli, G ^a,c   De Blay, F ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^e HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

Asthma; Bronchial challenge test; Cat allergen; Endotoxin; Inflammation; Lipopolysaccharide

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ENDOTOXIN; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; METHACHOLINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORG SCALE; BRONCHUS; CAT; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHALLENGE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SENSITIZATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CATS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745655649     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2006.02500.x     Document Type: Article

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