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KMID : 0379520050210020121
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한국독성학회지
2005 Volume.21 No. 2 p.121 ~ p.128
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Immunologic Alteration Demonstrated at the Economic Animal Husbandry Workers
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Kim Hyoung-Ah
Lee Kyung-Suk
Kim Kyung-Ran
Kim Kwang-Ho
Heo Yong
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Abstract
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Economic animal husbandry workers exposed to organic dust can be suffered from immunologic disorders. Our study was to determine immunological parameters related with occurrence of respiratory allergic diseases to animal husbandry workers in Korea for the first time. Peripheral blood were obtained from twenty-five pig barn workers, forty-nine chicken farming workers and fifty-one non-agricultural control workers. Significantly upregulated plasma IgE level was observed with pig-barn workers than that of chicken farming workers or healthy community control subjects. Furthermore, level of histamine, a hallmark of allergy induction, was upregulated in the pig and chicken farming workers in comparison with that of the control subjects. Downregulation of IFN_gamma and TNF_{alpha} production from T cells was apparent in the animal husbandry workers compared with the control subjects. Meanwhile, T cells collected from the pig barn workers demonstrated significantly higher production of IL-4 and IL-10 than the other groups. There were also alterations in IgG subclass distribution. In conclusion, immunological modulation probably leading to occupational allergic diseases can be occurred in the economic animal husbandry workers and the pig barn workers could be the most risky group to the work-related allergic disease.
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KEYWORD
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Animal husbandry, Allergic responses, IgE, Histamine, T lymphocyte
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