Effect of acupuncture on allergen-induced basophil activation in patients with atopic eczema: A pilot trial

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 309-314

  Pfab, Florian ^a,b,c   Athanasiadis, Georgios I ^a   Huss Marp, Johannes ^a,b   Fuqin, Jiang ^a   Heuser, Beate ^a   Cifuentes, Liliana ^a,b   Brockow, Knut ^a,b   Schober, Wolfgang ^b   Konstantinow, Alexander ^a   Irnich, Dominik ^d   Behrendt, Heidrun ^b   Ring, Johannes ^a   Ollert, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CD63 ANTIGEN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASOPHIL; BASOPHIL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STIMULATION; THERAPY EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD63; BASOPHILS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHLEUM; PILOT PROJECTS; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955034065     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2009.0684     Document Type: Article

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