A controlled challenge study on Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) in house dust and the immune response in human nasal mucosa of allergic subjects

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1487-1493

  Deutschie, Tom ^a,e   Reiter, Rudolf ^a   Butte, Werner ^b   Heinzow, Birger ^c   Keck, Tilman ^a   Riechelmann, Herbert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c State Agency for Nature and Environment Schleswig Holstein   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Cytokines; DEHP; Di(2 ethylhexyl) phthalate; House dust; Hypersensitivity; Microarray analysis; Nasal challenge; Nasal exposure system; Nasal mucosa

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; UPREGULATION; AEROSOL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; DUST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY;

PYROGLYPHIDAE;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; CYTOKINES; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; DUST; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 58849152237     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11474     Document Type: Article

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