Beware of, not only the dogs, but the passionate kissing and the Kounis syndrome

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-150

  Kounis, Nicholas G ^a   Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^b   Goudevenos, John ^b  

^a Patras Highest Institute of Education and Technology   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; NEUTRAL PROTEINASE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ALLERGIC REACTION; CELL ACTIVATION; DOG; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; KOUNIS SYNDROME; LETTER; LICKING; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; PEANUT; PEANUT ALLERGY; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AMOXICILLIN; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOGS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MACROPHAGES; MAST CELLS; SALIVA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 79953662106     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e328341aeaf     Document Type: Letter

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