Intercellular adhesion molecule immunotherapy

Sublingual immunotherapy Allergy Interleukin-2 receptor Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 Immunoglobulin G4 sE-selectin Interleukin Immunoglobulin E... 

For the present open observation on sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), nonspecific inflammatory markers were chosen, which are supposed to be involved in the allergic cascade and which can be measured by common ELISA techniques soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1), sE-selectin, soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R), interleukin-12 (IL-12) and specific IgG4. Earlier investigations in this field were mostly performed on a smaller number of patients and the results are sometimes contradicting. 

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