Subjects with either allergic asthma or allergic rhinitis will be recruited to obtain blood. This blood will be used to be stimulated with to whatever the patient allergic. In the laboratory, this stimulated blood will be measured for histamine, leukotrienes, IL-13 and IL-3. These are chemicals responsible for allergy symptoms.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
15
Creighton University Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Histamine Release
Time frame: during the assay portion.
Cytokine release. IL-13, IL-4 and leukotriene
Time frame: assay portion
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