Do environmental mold and mycotoxin exposures elicit specific cytokine and chemokine responses?
These findings demonstrate that chronic mold exposures induced changes in inflammatory and immune system responses to specific mold and mycotoxin challenges. These responses can differentiate mold-exposed patients from unexposed controls. This strategy may be a powerful approach to document immune system responsiveness to molds and other inflammation-inducing environmental agents.
This study suggests that CD is associated with urticaria, especially chronic urticaria.