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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2020

Utility of Environmental Exposure Unit Challenge Protocols for the Study of Allergic Rhinitis Therapies.

Lubnaa Hossenbaccus, Lisa M Steacy, Terry Walker, Anne K Ellis

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Technical validation of controlled exposure to cat dander in the specialized particulate control environmental exposure unit (SPaC-EEU).Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lubnaa HossenbaccusDepartment of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Lisa M SteacyAllergy Research Unit, Kingston Health Sciences Center - KGH Site, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Terry WalkerAllergy Research Unit, Kingston Health Sciences Center - KGH Site, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Anne K EllisDepartment of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. ellisa@queensu.ca.
Kingston Health Sciences Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis paper explores how the Environmental Exposure Unit (EEU) experimental model can be used to further our understanding of pharmacotherapies and immunotherapies for the treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR). RECENT

findingsEEUs are used increasingly for the study of combination therapies, immunotherapies, and novel AR treatments. A combined antihistamine/corticosteroid nasal spray formulation was seen to have a faster onset of action relative to the therapies individually in the Environmental Exposure Chamber. House dust mite sublingual immunotherapy tablets are both safe and efficacious as evaluated by the Vienna Challenge Chamber. The Kingston EEU found that a novel peptide-based immunotherapy approach to be effective in reducing grass pollen-induced AR. Lastly, nasal filters were determined to reduce seasonal AR symptoms, given out-of-season in the Denmark Environmental Exposure Unit. EEUs are controlled, replicable models that provide valuable insight into the efficacy, onset and duration of action, and dose-related impacts of AR therapeutics, with direct clinical relevance.

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Environmental ExposureAnimalsHumansResearch DesignRhinitis, AllergicAllergen specific immunotherapyAllergic rhinitisAntihistamineEnvironmental Exposure UnitNasal corticosteroidsTherapy

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PMID32506346
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