1. Les chambres d’exposition environnementale (CEE) : un nouvel outil dans la recherche académique et industrielle
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Nathalie Domis, Ibrahim Choual, F. De Blay, Laurent Vecellio, C. Radu, S. Jilani, N. Khayath, Service de pneumologie (Strasbourg), CHU Strasbourg-Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Biocluster des Haras, ALYATEC®, Centre d’Etude des Pathologies Respiratoires (CEPR), UMR 1100 (CEPR), Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Pôle de pathologie thoracique, and CHU Strasbourg-Hopital Civil
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[SDV.EE.SANT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Health ,0301 basic medicine ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Standardized allergenic ,business.industry ,Provocation test ,Allergic asthma ,Environmental exposure ,medicine.disease_cause ,medicine.disease ,respiratory tract diseases ,3. Good health ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Allergen ,030228 respiratory system ,Allergic symptoms ,Medicine ,ALLERGEN EXPOSURE ,business ,Intensive care medicine ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Asthma - Abstract
Airborne allergic diseases (allergic asthma, rhinitis and conjunctivitis) have reached epidemic proportions and are a great burden for both society and individuals. Therefore we need to better understand the physiopathological mechanisms and to increase clinical research in these diseases. However, traditional outpatient studies are difficult and have number of limitations, in particular the variability of allergen exposure. Yet allergen provocation tests, especially bronchial challenges in asthma, are excellent tools to measure the efficiency of anti-allergic therapies. Environmental exposure chambers (EEC) allow the performance of controlled allergen provocation tests on a large scale with remarkable sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility. Moreover, they allow a precise collection of allergic symptoms, making them interesting tools for patho-physiological and clinical studies. During the last thirty years, they have assisted the study of anti-allergic therapies and provided data on their pharmacodynamic characteristics, particularly in allergic rhinitis. However, there are still no EEC tests centered on asthma. The EEC of Strasbourg (ALYATEC®) was developed to fulfill two objectives: to allow standardized allergenic and non-allergenic exposures with better control of the parameters than in other EEC and to offer a place to study asthma and anti-asthmatic therapies safely.
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- 2018
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