Objective approach for fending off the sublingual immunotherapy placebo effect in subjects with pollenosis: Double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 108-113

  Kralimarkova, Tanya Z ^a   Popov, Todor A ^a   Staevska, Maria ^a   Mincheva, Roxana ^a   Lazarova, Cvetelina ^a   Racheva, Rumyana ^a   Mustakov, Tihomir B ^a   Filipova, Violina ^a   Koleva, Margarita ^a   Bacheva, Kalina ^a   Dimitrov, Vasil D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GRASS POLLEN EXTRACT; PLACEBO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXHALED BREATH TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEASON; SPIROMETRY; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGENS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLACEBOS; POACEAE; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84903164495     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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