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Basophil Activation Test for Investigation of IgE-Mediated Mechanisms in Drug Hypersensitivity
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Published on: September 16, 2011

Characteristics of diatrizoate-induced basophil histamine release

R E Younger, H G Herrod, P L Lieberman

    The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    |January 1, 1986
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