Environmental influences on asthma and allergy

Chemical Immunology and Allergy

Volumn 84, Issue , 2004, Pages 36-101

  Asher, Innes ^a   Dagli, Elif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRESERVATIVE; MAGNESIUM; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SELENIUM; SODIUM; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLIMATE; DAY CARE; DIETARY INTAKE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS GROWTH; FISH; FITNESS; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEASLES VIRUS; OBESITY; PERTUSSIS; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TUBERCULOSIS; VEGETABLE;

EID: 6044258964     PISSN: 16602242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000081434     Document Type: Review

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