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Hypersensitivity - Articles
Are all autoimmune diseases caused by hypersensitivity reactions?
by
pathologystudent
Posted
Thu 06 Jan 2011 3:51pm
allergies).
However, although hypersensitivity reactions and autoimmune diseases overlap, they are not the same thing. For one thing, hypersensitivity reactions in and of themselves...
From time to time, I get questions regarding the connection between hypersensitivity reactions and autoimmune diseases. We discuss them one after the other in class
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Fragile X and Tactile Hypersensitivity
by
Your Therapy Source
Posted
Fri 12 Feb 2010 11:19am
New research regarding Fragile X syndrome and sensory hypersensitivity to touch has been discovered. Using a mouse modelscientists have determined that there is a delay... this delay period a therapeutic intervention can take place to help lessen the symptoms of tactile hypersensitivity.
Reference: Northwestern University (2010February 11). New clue
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis sec ...
by
Annet Lenderink
Posted
Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis secondary to lovebirds: a new cause of bird fancier’s disease
Funke,M., Fellrath,J.M.
European Respiratory Journal 2008;32:517-521
Patient... negative against other avian antigens.
Diagnosis: The patient was diagnosed with hypersensitivity pneumonitis to lovebirds.
Treatment: Avoidance of lovebirds and steroid treatment
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Definitions of Hypersensitivity, Allergy, and Atopy
by
Neil Kao
Posted
Sat 24 Oct 2009 10:03pm
subtypes (e.g. aspirin reactions). This definition does not accommodate classical responses to infection, autoimmunity, or toxic reactions.
2. Allergy is a hypersensitivity reaction initiated by immunologic mechanisms. Allergy can be antibody- or cell-mediated. In most patients, the antibody typically responsible for an allergic reaction belongs
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Definitions of Hypersensitivity, Allergy, and Atopy
by
Neil Kao
Posted
Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:01pm
subtypes (e.g. aspirin reactions). This definition does not accommodate classical responses to infection, autoimmunity, or toxic reactions.
2. Allergy is a hypersensitivity reaction initiated by immunologic mechanisms. Allergy can be antibody- or cell-mediated. In most patients, the antibody typically responsible for an allergic reaction belongs
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You Cannot Lose Weight When You’re Hypersensitive to the World
by
MariasLastDiet.com
Posted
Mon 16 May 2011 6:50am
Are you as an overweight woman who is hypersensitive to external food cues? You probably are. In other words, it might not take much for something you see, smell, hear..., then emotionalized cues, if you’re an overweight woman, are everywhere too—and they are much more prevalent. That’s your hypersensitivity factor. It makes it seem as if you’re surrounded
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Panic and hypersensitivity to ph...
by
Eric W.
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:16pm
Panic and hypersensitivity to physical symptoms.
"Are you tuned into your heartbeat?", post at the British Psychological Society Research Digest, discusses recent research into how different populations (people who are particularly afraid of anxiety-related symptoms, people with "normal" levels of fear of anxiety-related symptoms, and people who
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Bacterial Hypersensitivity in Pets
by
heru m.
Posted
Wed 18 Feb 2009 12:02pm
not seem to be prejudice to either.
This condition is generally caused by a hypersensitivity (or in other words, an allergy), to certain types of bacteria.
While it is believed... causing this condition.
Preventive measures are possible with this disease.
If an allergy is suspected as the cause of the bacterial hypersensitivity, as with other allergies
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Hypersensitivity and the practice of extreme avoidance
by
Janis Bell
Posted
Tue 17 Jan 2012 12:00am
A friend loaned me Rea and Patel’s Reversibility of Chronic Degenerative Disease and Hypersensitivity, a thick, technical, soporific medical book which, when all... the strategies I use, and others use, to deal with hypersensitivities. I haven’t been practicing extreme avoidance, and I really don’t want to. But I may have to do so if nothing else
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