Contact sensitization in the elderly

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-30

  Balato, Anna ^a   Balato, Nicola ^a   Di Costanzo, Luisa ^a   Ayala, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; 4,4' METHYLENEDIANILINE; ALLERGEN; ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; BALSAM PERU; CYTOKINE; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; EUXYL K 400; FRAGRANCE; HAPTEN; LANOLIN ALCOHOL; NICKEL SULFATE; QUINOLINE;

AGING; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEG ULCER; NONHUMAN; PATCH TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SENESCENCE; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN SENSITIZATION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLERGENS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; PREVALENCE;

EID: 78649918669     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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