{"title":"Immunologic Patterns in Allergic and Irritant Contact Dermatitis: Similarities","authors":"E. Dika, Nara Branco, H. Maibach","doi":"10.1159/000087149","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Long-standing tradition (and standard textbooks) suggest that separating irritation and allergic contact dermatitis (and their biologies) is straightforward. This overview examines this dogma, stressing that the similarities (at least in the efferent limbs) may be as great as the mechanistic differences.","PeriodicalId":12086,"journal":{"name":"Exogenous Dermatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Exogenous Dermatology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000087149","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Long-standing tradition (and standard textbooks) suggest that separating irritation and allergic contact dermatitis (and their biologies) is straightforward. This overview examines this dogma, stressing that the similarities (at least in the efferent limbs) may be as great as the mechanistic differences.