Mould extracts increase the allergic response to ovalbumin in mice

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1634-1641

  Instanes, Christine ^a   Ormstad, H ^a   Rydjord, B ^a   Wiker, H G ^a   Hetland, G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

glucan; Adjuvant effect; Cladosporium herbarum; Mould; Penicillium chrysogenum

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA 1,6 GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN; OVALBUMIN;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; EXTRACT; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOULD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; BETA-GLUCANS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CLADOSPORIUM; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVALBUMIN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 6344285710     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.02076.x     Document Type: Article

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