Environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) enhance allergic inflammation by acting on human basophils

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 151-156

  Schober, Wolfgang ^a   Lubitz, Stefanie ^a   Belloni, Benedetta ^a   Gebauer, Gudrun ^a   Lintelmann, Jutta ^b   Matuschek, Georg ^b   Weichenmeier, Ingrid ^a   Eberlein König, Bernadette ^a   Buters, Jeroen ^a   Behrendt, Heidrun ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE; CD63 ANTIGEN; HISTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BASOPHIL; BIRCH; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXHAUST GAS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UPREGULATION;

BASOPHILS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

EID: 34548824391     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370701496046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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