The hypothesis to be proven is that histamine iontophoresis with measurement of microvascular blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry can be used as a reliable marker to characterize the normal microvascular cutaneous response to histamine.
The specific aim of this study is to validate iontophoresis (with measurement of microvascular blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry) in a pediatric cohort as a surrogate marker capable of reliably characterizing the normal physiologic response of the cutaneous microvasculature to histamine. In future studies laser Doppler flowmetry ultimately will be used to assess whether microvascular blood flow determined by a previously validated laser Doppler technique can be used as a reliable surrogate endpoint capable of functionally discriminating the effects of polymorphisms in the genes which are quantitatively important for histamine metabolism. The hypothesis to be proven is that histamine iontophoresis with measurement of microvascular blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry can be used as a reliable marker to characterize the normal microvascular cutaneous response to histamine.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
74
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
comparison of histamine iontophoresis laser doppler monitoring with epicutaneous histamine testing in measuring the microvasculature response to histamine
Time frame: one time point
intra-individual variability of histamine iontophoresis with laser doppler monitoring
Determine the intra-individual variability of histamine iontophoresis with laser doppler flowimetry. Twenty subjects will be asked to return for 2 more visits for histamine iontophoresis with laser doppler flowimetry and the intra-individual variability of the measurement will be determined.
Time frame: at least 6 months
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