New insights into laboratory animal exposures and allergic responses

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 156-161

  Pacheco, Karin A ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endotoxin; Exposure measurement; Laboratory animal allergy; Laboratory animal asthma

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ENDOTOXIN; IRRITANT AGENT;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ATOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY ANIMAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCIENTIST; SENSITIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CATS; DOGS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MICE; RATS;

EID: 33947174097     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e328091c194     Document Type: Review

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