The hidden sense of symptoms: Urticaria can be beneficial

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 623-626

  Daschner, Alvaro ^a   Cuéllar, Carmen ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ALLERGIC URTICARIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANISAKIASIS; ANISAKIS; ARTICLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRICK TEST; URTICARIA;

ANISAKIASIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; STOMACH DISEASES; URTICARIA;

ANISAKIS SIMPLEX; VERMES;

EID: 77958497845     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.07.050     Document Type: Article

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