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Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6(Suppl 1):P32
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Treatment of initial allergic reactions to peanut inside and outside of health care facilities
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Managing paediatric eosinophilic gastroenteropathies: a community experience
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The controlled allergen challenge experience: comparison of allergic upper respiratory symptoms in the environmental exposure unit (EEU) and during seasonal exposure
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Raw wheat allergy: a case report
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An elusive case of systemic mastocytosis
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Rhinorrhea, cough and fatigue in patients taking sitagliptin
Sitagliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP IV, CD26) inhibitor indicated for treatment of Type II diabetes as a second line therapy after metformin. We report fifteen sitagliptin intolerant patients who deve...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:8 -
Estimation of the environmental attributable fraction of asthma among Canadian children: a systematic review
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Prenatal allergen and diesel exhaust exposure and their effects on allergy in adult offspring mice
Multiple studies have suggested that prenatal exposure to either allergens or air pollution may increase the risk for the development of allergic immune responses in young offspring. However, the effects of pr...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:7 -
Birth order modifies the effect of IL13 gene polymorphisms on serum IgE at age 10 and skin prick test at ages 4, 10 and 18: a prospective birth cohort study
Susceptibility to atopy originates from effects of the environment on genes. Birth order has been identified as a risk factor for atopy and evidence for some candidate genes has been accumulated; however no st...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:6 -
Kimura's disease with eosinophilic panniculitis - treated with cyclosporine: a case report
Kimura's disease is a rare, benign, slow growing chronic inflammatory swelling with a predilection for the head and neck region and almost always with peripheral blood eosinophilia and elevated serum IgE level...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:5 -
TSLP directly impairs pulmonary Treg function: association with aberrant tolerogenic immunity in asthmatic airway
Even though thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) has been implicated in the development of allergic inflammation, its influence on immune tolerance mediated by regulatory T cells (Treg) have not been explored. ...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:4 -
Alterations in the complement cascade in post-traumatic stress disorder
In the present study we assessed the functional state of the major mediator of the immune response, the complement system, in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:3 -
Skin prick testing in patients using beta-blockers: a retrospective analysis
The use of beta-blockers is a relative contraindication in allergen skin testing yet there is a paucity of literature on adverse events in this circumstance. We examined a population of skin tested patients on...
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Panallergens and their impact on the allergic patient
The panallergen concept encompasses families of related proteins, which are involved in general vital processes and thus, widely distributed throughout nature. Plant panallergens share highly conserved sequenc...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2010 6:1 -
The anti-inflammatory effects of levocetirizine - are they clinically relevant or just an interesting additional effect?
Levocetirizine, the R-enantiomer of cetirizine dihydrochloride has pharmacodynamically and pharmacokinetically favourable characteristics, including rapid onset of action, high bioavailability, high affinity f...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:14 -
Stem cells, inflammation and allergy
Recently, many studies have suggested a potential role for early hematopoietic progenitor cell and hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) recruitment and differentiation in the development of allergy and inflammation. ...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:13 -
Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting with markedly elevated IgE: a case report
Markedly elevated IgE as a manifestation of a lymphoproliferative disorder has been only rarely reported.
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:12 -
Importance of basophil activation testing in insect venom allergy
Venom immunotherapy (VIT) is the only effective treatment for prevention of serious allergic reactions to bee and wasp stings in sensitized individuals. However, there are still many questions and controversie...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:11 -
Urticaria and infections
Urticaria is a group of diseases that share a distinct skin reaction pattern. Triggering of urticaria by infections has been discussed for many years but the exact role and pathogenesis of mast cell activation...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:10 -
Treating rhinitis in the older population: special considerations
Rhinitis in the elderly is a common but often neglected condition. Structural changes in the nose associated with aging, predisposes the elderly to rhinitis. There are a number of specific factors that affect ...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:9 -
Introduction of oral vitamin D supplementation and the rise of the allergy pandemic
The history of the allergy pandemic is well documented, enabling us to put the vitamin D hypothesis into its historical context. The purpose of this study is to compare the prevalence of rickets, vitamin D sup...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:8 -
Imitators of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction
Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is described by transient narrowing of the airways after exercise. It occurs in approximately 10% of the general population, while athletes may show a higher prevalen...
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Determinants in early life for asthma development
A reliable screening test in newborns for the subsequent development of bronchial asthma (BA) has not been found yet. This is mainly due to the complexity of BA, being made up by different types and underlying...
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The role of Probiotics in allergic diseases
Allergic disorders are very common in the pediatric age group. While the exact etiology is unclear, evidence is mounting to incriminate environmental factors and an aberrant gut microbiota with a shift of the ...
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How safe are the biologicals in treating asthma and rhinitis?
A number of biological agents are available or being investigated for the treatment of asthma and rhinitis. The safety profiles of these biologic agents, which may modify allergic and immunological diseases, a...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:4 -
Pollen allergens do not come alone: pollen associated lipid mediators (PALMS) shift the human immue systems towards a TH2-dominated response
Pollen allergy is characterized by a TH2-biased immune response to pollen-derived allergens. However, pollen-exposed epithelia do not encounter pure allergen but rather a plethora of protein and non-protein subst...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:3 -
Diagnostic evaluation of food-related allergic diseases
Food allergy is a serious and potentially life-threatening problem for an estimated 6% of children and 3.7% of adults. This review examines the diagnostic process that begins with a patient's history and physi...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:2 -
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Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2009 5:1 -
Assessing and Treating Work-Related Asthma
Work-related asthma is asthma that is caused or exacerbated by exposures at work. It is the most common form of occupational lung disease in developed countries. It has important impacts on the health and well...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:164 -
Patterns of Expression of Vaginal T-Cell Activation Markers during Estrogen-Maintained Vaginal Candidiasis
The immunosuppressive activity of estrogen was further investigated by assessing the pattern of expression of CD25, CD28, CD69, and CD152 on vaginal T cells during estrogen-maintained vaginal candidiasis. A pr...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:157 -
Allergy, Asthma, and Inflammation: Which Inflammatory Cell Type Is More Important?
A recent review in Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology suggested that eosinophils play a minor role, if any, in the inflammatory spectrum of asthma and allergic inflammation. The article that dealt with mast...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:150 -
Should Younger Siblings of Peanut-Allergic Children Be Assessed by an Allergist before Being Fed Peanut?
The objective of this study was to determine the risk of peanut allergy in siblings of peanut-allergic children. In 2005-2006, 560 households of children born in 1995 in the province of Manitoba, Canada, were ...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:144 -
Peanut Allergy: An Overview
Peanut allergies have been increasing in prevalence in most industrialized countries. Onset is typically in early childhood, with a trend towards earlier ages of presentation. The allergy is lifelong in most a...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:139 -
Ragweed as an Example of Worldwide Allergen Expansion
Multiple factors are contributing to the expansion of ragweed on a worldwide scale. This review seeks to examine factors that may contribute to allergen expansion with reference to ragweed as a well-studied ex...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:130 -
Evaluating the Safety of Intranasal Steroids in the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis
Given that intranasal corticosteroids (INCs) are widely considered first-line therapies for treatment of rhinitis, it is important for the clinician to be comfortable with the side-effect profile and be able t...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:125 -
The Changing Microbial Environment and Chronic Inflammatory Disorders
There is much to be gained from examining human diseases within the expanding framework of Darwinian medicine. This is particularly true of those conditions that change in frequency as populations develop from...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:117 -
Atypical Bacteria and Macrolides in Asthma
Chlamydophila pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae are common pathogens causing acute illness in both the upper and lower airways. Several observations are supportive of a possible causative role of these pathoge...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:111 -
Nature of Regulatory T Cells in the Context of Allergic Disease
Allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the cornerstone of the management of allergic diseases, which targets modification of the immunologic response, along with environmental allergen avoidance and pharmaco...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:106 -
Chitosan Interferon-γ Nanogene Therapy for Lung Disease: Modulation of T-Cell and Dendritic Cell Immune Responses
The use of chitosan nanoparticles as carriers for expression plasmids represents a major improvement in gene expression technology. We demonstrated previously that treatment with chitosan interferon-γ (IFN-γ) ...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:95 -
Asthma: Eosinophil Disease, Mast Cell Disease, or Both?
Although there is much circumstantial evidence implicating eosinophils as major orchestrators in the pathophysiology of asthma, recent studies have cast doubt on their importance. Not only does anti-interleuki...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:84 -
Aspirin-Exacerbated Asthma
This review focuses on aspirin-exacerbated asthma (AEA). The review includes historical perspective of aspirin, prevalence, pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment of AEA. The pathogenesis of AEA involve...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:75 -
Patch Testing in Non-Immediate Drug Eruptions
The present review addresses the literature regarding the sensitivity and specificity of the various diagnostic methods for evaluating non-immediate (ie, occurring more than 1 hour after drug administration) h...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:66 -
Occupational Contact Dermatitis
Occupational contact dermatitis accounts for 90% of all cases of work-related cutaneous disorders. It can be divided into irritant contact dermatitis, which occurs in 80% of cases, and allergic contact dermati...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:59 -
Is Obesity Associated with an Increased Risk for Airway Hyperresponsiveness and Development of Asthma?
We investigated the association between airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and obesity in adults referred for confirmation of asthma diagnosis. Data were analyzed for obesity class I (body mass index [BMI] 30-34...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:51 -
Epigenetics, Behaviour, and Health
The long-term effects of behaviour and environmental exposures, particularly during childhood, on health outcomes are well documented. Particularly thought provoking is the notion that exposures to different s...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:37 -
Stress and Childhood Asthma Risk: Overlapping Evidence from Animal Studies and Epidemiologic Research
Rapidly expanding evidence increasingly strengthens the evidence linking psychological factors to asthma and allergy expression. Parallel studies in animals and humans demonstrating the influence of prenatal m...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:29 -
Psychological Factors in Asthma
Asthma has long been considered a condition in which psychological factors have a role. As in many illnesses, psychological variables may affect outcome in asthma via their effects on treatment adherence and s...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:12 -
Enhancing versus Suppressive Effects of Stress on Immune Function: Implications for Immunoprotection versus Immunopathology
It is widely believed that stress suppresses immune function and increases susceptibility to infections and cancer. Paradoxically, stress is also known to exacerbate allergic, autoimmune, and inflammatory dise...
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:2 -
The Mind-Body of Allergic Diseases
Citation: Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2008 4:1
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