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Immunologic Alteration Demonstrated at the Economic Animal Husbandry Workers  

Kim, Hyoung-Ah (The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Dept. of Preventive Medicine)
Lee, Kyung-Sook (National Institute of Rural Sciences and Technology, Rural Resources Development Institute)
Kim, Kyung-Ran (National Institute of Rural Sciences and Technology, Rural Resources Development Institute)
Kim, Kwang-Ho (Catholic University of Daegu, College of Natural Sciences, Dept. Occupational Health)
Heo, Yong (Catholic University of Daegu, College of Natural Sciences, Dept. Occupational Health)
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Toxicological Research / v.21, no.2, 2005 , pp. 121-128 More about this Journal
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Animal husbandry; Allergic responses; IgE; Histamine; T lymphocyte;
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