Is there an in vitro test for type IV allergy discriminating between sensitization and allergic disease?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1412-1415

  Traidl Hoffmann, C ^a   Ring, J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ALLERGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HAPTEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; NICKEL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; PATCH TEST; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE;

CHLORIDES; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PATCH TESTS; POTASSIUM DICHROMATE;

EID: 50249155915     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2008.03065.x     Document Type: Editorial

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