Nature Medicine
4, 500 - 501 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0598supp-500
Alchemy for asthmaWilliam O.C.M. Cookson
& Miriam F. MoffattAsthma Genetics Group, Nuffield, Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, U.K. email: wocc@radius.jr2.ox.ac.uk Techniques that induce allergen tolerance in asthma patients are not yet fully effective or free of side effects. REFERENCES
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