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Allergic Reactions

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Allergic Drug Reactions

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Allergic reactions related to drugs are hypersensitivity responses driven by the immune system and bear no connection to the drug's therapeutic action. While drugs in isolation do not trigger an immune response, they can interact with endogenous proteins to form antigens. These antigens stimulate lymphocytes to produce antibodies. IgE-type antibodies attach themselves to mast cells. Upon subsequent exposure to the same stimulus, the antigen-antibody interaction is initiated, unleashing...

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Adrenergic agonists have diverse therapeutic uses across various medical conditions and emergencies.
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Anaphylaxis Induced by Rectal Drug Formulations

E Arroabarren¹, M T Aldunate¹, M Anda²

¹Department of Allergy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Journal of Investigational Allergology & Clinical Immunology

|June 4, 2020

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