Gene expression profile of patients with moderate and severe chronic spontaneous urticaria [tissue]

ABSTRACT: Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), also traditionally called Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU), is a common dermatosis. Its estimated point prevalence is 0.6 to 1%. CSU is defined by spontaneously occurring short-lived and itching wheal, angioedema or both. The current nomenclature of urticaria endorses the use of a clinical rather than an aetiological classification to recognise that a percentage of patients with CSU have an autoimmune rather than idiopathic aetiology. As it happens with other IgE-associated diseases, a better knowledge of urticaria patients requires defining phenotypes. The present knowledge about CSU phenotypes is based on the clinical characteristics, associated comorbidities, the course of the disease and its response to the available effective drugs. But a phenoty

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Lara Nonell 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-72540 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress