Non-specific airway hyperresponsiveness in mono-sensitive sicilian patients with allergic rhinitis. Its relationship to total serum IgE levels and blood eosinophils during and out of the pollen season

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1052-1059

  Lorenzo, G D I ^a,c   Mansueto, P ^a   Melluso, M ^a   Morici, G ^b   Norrito, F ^b   Esposito Pellitteri, M ^a   Salvo, A D I ^a   Colombo, A ^b   Candore, G ^b   Caruso, C ^a  

^a Cattedra dl Medicina Interna II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c Istituto di Medicina Interna e Geriatria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asthma eosinophil total serum IgE Parietaria PC20 FEV1 rhinitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; POLLEN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEASONS; SICILY; SKIN TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 9844253886     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1997.tb01257.x     Document Type: Article

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