The practical role of serum allergen-specific IgE as potential biomarker for predicting responder to allergen immunotherapy

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-324

  Ciprandi, Giorgio ^a   Tosca, Maria Angela ^b   Silvestri, Michela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

allergen immunotherapy; allergen specific IgE; allergic rhinitis; asthma; biomarker; responder; serum; total IgE

Indexed keywords

ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; BIOMARKERS, PHARMACOLOGICAL; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL;

EID: 84894341368     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: 17448409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/1744666X.2014.872032     Document Type: Review

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