Body burden of mercury is associated with acute atopic eczema and total IgE in children from southern Germany [5]

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 457-459

  Weidinger, Stephan ^a,b   Krämer, Ursula ^a,c   Dunemann, Lothar ^d   Möhrenschlager, Matthias ^a   Ring, Johannes ^a,b   Behrendt, Heidrun ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Div of Environ Dermatol/Allergol   (Germany)

^c IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d Hygiene Institut des Ruhrgebiets   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CADMIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MERCURY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALLERGY; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BASOPHIL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRANULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EXPOSURE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; POLYCLONAL ACTIVATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TEST; STANDARDIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BODY BURDEN; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LOGISTIC MODELS; MERCURY;

EID: 4344672580     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2004.04.011     Document Type: Letter

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