Sensitization to nickel: Etiology, epidemiology, immune reactions, prevention, and therapy

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 253-280

  Hostynek, Jurij J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; DISULFIRAM; HYDROCORTISONE ACETATE; MACROGOL; NICKEL; PROTECTIVE AGENT; TRIENTINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LASSITUDE; LIVER TOXICITY; MORBIDITY; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PROGNOSIS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUVA; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION;

EID: 33845927591     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.2006.21.4.253     Document Type: Review

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