Publication Date:
1984-08-17
Description:
Most of the effort directed at understanding the problems of allergy has focused on the interacting components of the immune system. The possibility that histamine may be released as a learned response has now been tested. In a classical conditioning procedure in which an immunologic challenge was paired with the presentation of an odor, guinea pigs showed a plasma histamine increase when presented with the odor alone. This suggests that the immune response can be enhanced through activity of the central nervous system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Russell, M -- Dark, K A -- Cummins, R W -- Ellman, G -- Callaway, E -- Peeke, H V -- RR-05755/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Aug 17;225(4663):733-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6205449" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Conditioning, Classical
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Guinea Pigs
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Histamine/blood
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*Histamine Release
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Hypersensitivity/physiopathology
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Male
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Odors
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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