Active clinical trials for "Hypersensitivity"

The purpose of this study is to investigate if 28 days of treatment with AZD2066 compared to placebo can relieve the pain arising from the nervous system when the patients are touched by something that should not cause pain or have severe pain when they are touched by something that should only cause a little pain.

To compare the HRQOL of AR101 characterized oral desensitization immunotherapy (CODIT™) in combination with standard of care (peanut avoidance, education) versus standard of care alone in peanut-allergic subjects aged 4 to 17 years.

This is a 38-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group trial of approximately 150 patients who have a history of immediate hypersensitivity reaction to peanut protein.

This study will investigate what concentrations of the most common thiurams and carbamates that elicit allergic contact dermatitis under patch test and what concentrations of the rubber accelerators that elicit allergic contact dermatitis by repeated exposures under simulated use conditions. Further, it will investigate whether a damaged skin barrier as caused by wet work increase the severity of the allergic contact dermatitis. The participants will be assigned to either the SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate)-group or non SLS-group. For the participants of the SLS-group, one volar forearm will be randomized to be pre-irritated with a soap i.e. detergent: sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) for 24 hours to simulate wet work. The participants of the non SLS-group will not be pre-irritated with SLS. Following this, the participants' volar forearms will be exposed to thiurams or carbamates and a control solution every night for 7 nights to simulate the repeated exposure to rubber gloves with accelerators. The skin reactions will be read cf. current international guidelines and further quantified using laser Doppler flowmetry. During the study, all participants will be patch tested on the upper back with rubber accelerators to investigate their current degree of sensitization and the dose-response relationships.

This project intends the analysis and profiling of specific antibodies against major peanut allergens in peanut allergic individuals and molecular cloning of human antibodies against major peanut allergens.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of the 0.454 percentage (%) weight/weight (w/w) stannous fluoride (SnF2) toothpastes for the relief of dentine hypersensitivity (DH) in China.

Dentin hypersensitivity is one of the most commonly occurring clinical dental conditions which is characterized by short and sharp pain which arises from exposed dentin in response to external stimuli, which typically are thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic or chemical. Hypersensitive dentin is mostly found in buccal tooth areas, in which enamel is missing because of abrasion, attrition, or erosion. The most generally accepted theory regarding the mechanism of dentin hypersensitivity is the hydrodynamic theory. It proposes that a pain-provoking stimulus increases the flow of the dentinal tubular fluid and consequently, stimulates the nerves around the odontoblasts, leading to dentin hypersensitivity.

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effect of 3M™ Clinpro™ Fluoride Aqueous Solution (experimental) on Dentin Hypersensitivity (DHS) in comparison to 3M™ Vanish™ (commercialized, control] in patients who have DHS. Participants will be asked to complete the following activities: Undergo a pre-treatment washout period for 3- to 6-weeks (± 4 days) post-enrollment. During this time, the Subject is to only use the provided oral hygiene products. Hypersensitivity will be assessed prior to (baseline) and immediately after sample application. Subject will be asked to come to the facility for hypersensitivity assessments at 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days after the treatment visit. Researchers will compare 3M™ Clinpro™ Fluoride Aqueous Solution to 3M™ Vanish™ to evaluate if the effect of Clinpro™ on DHS treatment is non-inferior to Vanish™.

In this project the investigators will test if it is possible to measure changes in intestinal gas production after supplementation of a complex fiber mixture over a 36 hour period in both lean normoglycemic individuals and individuals with insulin resistance and/or prediabetes with overweight when compared with a placebo Changes in intestinal gas production will also be related to energy expenditure, substrate metabolism, microbial composition and related metabolites in feces, blood and urine.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), characterized by recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions, is a disabling psychiatric condition affecting approximately 2-3% of the population. Whereas several first-line treatments have been established (e.g., pharmacological and psychological), a substantial proportion of patients (40-60%) fail to experience symptom remission, underscoring the need for research in this area. One approach to increasing treatment efficacy is to target underlying risk factors or dysfunctions that may in turn improve outcomes. One such risk factor is anxiety sensitivity (AS) cognitive concerns. AS cognitive concerns reflects fears of mental incapacitation (e.g., "It scares me when I am unable to keep my mind on a task"). There is recent evidence that AS cognitive concerns is uniquely associated with various obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom domains. However, questions remain as to whether reductions in AS cognitive concerns will lead to subsequent reductions in OC symptoms. The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate the efficacy of a brief AS cognitive concerns intervention on reductions in OC symptoms.