Monitoring the effect of allergen immunotherapy: A clinician's dream comes true?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 958-961

  Bullens, D M A ^a  

^a Children's Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CD40 LIGAND; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PLACEBO; POLLEN EXTRACT; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 4;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MONITORING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLERGENS; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS;

EID: 77953530682     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2010.03526.x     Document Type: Editorial

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