• Medicine
• Published in
  Clinical and experimental…
  2006
• DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2222.2006.02529.x

Changes in immune regulation in response to examination stress in atopic and healthy individuals.

@article{Hglund2006ChangesII,
  title={Changes in immune regulation in response to examination stress in atopic and healthy individuals.},
  author={Caroline Olgart H{\"o}glund and Jennie Ax{\'e}n and Cecilia Kemi and Susanna Jernel{\"o}v and Johan Grunewald and C M{\"u}ller-Suur and Yoav Smith and Reidar Gr{\"o}nneberg and Anders Eklund and Pontus Stierna and Mats Lekander},
  journal={Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology},
  year={2006},
  volume={36 8},
  pages={
          982-92
        }
}

• Caroline Olgart Höglund, Jennie Axén, +8 authors Mats Lekander

BACKGROUND Stress can aggravate the allergic inflammation, but determinants of disturbed immune regulation are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine systemic immunological, local inflammatory and functional airway responses to stress in healthy and atopic individuals. METHODS Forty-one undergraduate students, 22 with allergy of whom 16 had asthma, and 19 healthy controls, were studied in a low-stress period and in association with a large exam. Subjects completed questionnaires on stress… CONTINUE READING

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