Sentences with phrase «skin response test»

Some of the novel sensors give you the ability to measure UV exposure and a galvanic skin response test to monitor stress.

Not exact matches

Yet unlike a true allergy, intolerances do NOT involve an immune response and does not show up on allergy testing mentioned above (blood test and skin prick testing).

If the rash appears to be caused by an allergic response, your doctor may perform skin testing to determine the specific allergy - causing agent.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

To test the physiological effects of tears, Sobel's group measured men's galvanic skin responses (GSR's, basically a fancy measure of sweatiness) as they watched either neutral or sad movie clips.

The test detects antibodies that form in response to the gas, and it could open the door to skin tests for exposure to other toxic chemicals, including run - of - the - mill environmental pollutants.

The scientists tested the response of these mosquitoes to skin odorants by placing them in a wind tunnel with a plate of glass beads that had been worn in socks for several hours to give them the scent of human foot odor.

While you may not show a positive skin response to certain foods upon skin prick testing, immunological testing can determine if you possess a predisposition to developing certain food allergies.

This type of reaction is part of our delayed immune response system which can take hours to days to show up in a variety of symptoms and it's not detected in the skin scratch test process.

If your veterinarian suspects that your pet has atopy, he or she may offer a referral to the dermatologist for intradermal allergy testing where a small amount of test allergens are injected in the skin and a wheal (a bump) response is measured.

Diagnosis is based on clinical signs, allergy testing utilizing skin testing or RAST testing and response to treatment.

A test for determining a pollen allergy can be carried out by introducing pollens (silver maple or artificial histamines are used) under shaved skin and studying the inflammatory response after a few minutes or hours.

In December 1994, in response to a request for clarification, a Joint Board committee determined that a) skin testing performed by intradermal technique, and b) skin testing performed by the scratch technique were appropriate for medical assistants to perform.

Cardiovascular tests of autonomic function and sympathetic skin responses in patients with major depression

The relations between independent predictor variables (measures of immunological and psychological function at entry to the trial, age of onset, and duration of illness) and dependent dichotomous outcome variables (self rated global outcome; presence or absence of caseness on the general health questionnaire at follow up; reduced or normal delayed responses to hypersensitivity skin test) were examined in separate logistic regression analyses.