Characterization of Japanese cypress pollinosis and the effects of early interventional treatment for cypress pollinosis

Clinical and Experimental Allergy Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Okano, Mitsuhiro ^a   Fujiwara, Tazuko ^a   Higaki, Takaya ^a   Makihara, Seiichiro ^a   Haruna, Tekenori ^a   Nishizaki, Kazunori ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial plantation; Cha o 1; Cha o 2; Early interventional treatment; Histamine H1 receptor antagonist; IL 31; IL 5; Immunotherapy; Japanese cedar pollinosis; Japanese cypress pollinosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 31; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OLOPATADINE; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHAMAECYPARIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISPERSION; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY INTERVENTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; JAPAN; JAPANESE CEDAR; JAPANESE CYPRESS; NOSE CONGESTION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLANTATION; POLLEN; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA; SNEEZING; SNORING; SPRING; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

EID: 84857871821     PISSN: 14729725     EISSN: 14729733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-9733.2011.01156.x     Document Type: Review

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