Contact allergy to nickel: Patch test score correlates with IL-5, but not with IFN-gamma nickel-specific secretion by peripheral blood lymphocytes

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-41

  Czarnobilska, Ewa ^a   Jenner, Bartosz ^a   Kaszuba Zwoinska, Jolanta ^a   Kapusta, Maria ^a   Obtułowicz, Krystyna ^a   Thor, Piotr ^a   Śpiewak, Radosław ^b,c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b The Institute of Dermatology in Krakow   (Poland)

^c NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Clinical correlates; Contact allergy; Estimation of risk; Interferon gamma; Interleukin 5; Lymphocytes; Patch test

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 5; NICKEL SULFATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; PATCH TEST; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-5; LYMPHOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NICKEL; PATCH TESTS;

EID: 67650898294     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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