The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 121, Issue 3 , Pages 646-651 , March 2008

Sensitization does not develop in utero

  • Klaus Bønnelykke, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Klaus Bønnelykke, MD, Danish Pediatric Asthma Center, Department of Pediatrics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Gentofte, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark.
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  • Christian Bressen Pipper, MSc, PhD
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  • Hans Bisgaard, MD, DMSc

Received 23 October 2007 ,Revised 29 November 2007 ,Accepted 10 December 2007.

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 The IgE analyses were supported by Phadia ApS. The Copenhagen Study on Asthma in Childhood is funded by research funds: the Pharmacy Foundation of 1991; the Lundbeck Foundation; the Augustinus Foundation; Ronald McDonald House Charities; the Danish Medical Research Council; the Danish Pediatric Asthma Center; Direktør, cand.pharm. K. Gad Andersen og Hustrus Familiefond; Aage Bangs Fond; the Danish Lung Association; Kai Lange og Gunhild Kai Langes Fond; Direktør Ib Henriksens Fond; Gerda og Aage Hensch's Fond; Rosalie Petersens Fond; Hans og Nora Buchards Fond; Dagmar Marshalls Fond; the Foundation of Queen Louise Children's Hospital; the Danish Hospital Foundation for Medical Research, Region of Copenhagen, the Faroe Island, and Greenland; Gangsted Fond; Højmosegård-Legatet; Fonden til Lægevidenskabens Fremme; A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal; and the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health's Research Center for Environmental Health. The study received support from the following pharmaceutical companies: AstraZeneca, LEOpharma, and Yamanouchi Pharma.

 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: K. Bønnelykke has received travel grants from Phadia ApS. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

PII: S0091-6749(07)03576-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.12.1149

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 121, Issue 3 , Pages 646-651 , March 2008

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