Contribution of stress to asthma worsening through mast cell activation

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-19

  Theoharides, Theoharis C ^a   Enakuaa, Souad ^a   Sismanopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Asadi, Shahrzad ^a   Papadimas, Evangelos C ^a   Angelidou, Asimenia ^a   Alysandratos, Konstantinos Dionysios ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 33;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; CELL ACTIVATION; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE RECEPTOR 1 GENE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY CONFLICT; FAMILY STRESS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MAST CELL; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTERLEUKIN-10; LUNG; MALE; MAST CELLS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84862834218     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2012.03.003     Document Type: Review

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