Conditions: Asthma
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 18
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
We are using anti-IgE to investigate the role of pulmonary mast cells in asthma.

Detailed description:
Subjects with mild allergic asthma are examined before, immediately after and 2 months after a course of treatment with anti-IgE. The following are examined: Allergen skin tests, allergen induced asthma, peripheral blood basophils, pulmonary bronchial mucosal mast cells.

Arms:
arm 1: This is a single arm, parallel study examining differences of therapeutic outcomes of Xolair. Xolair is being examined as an intervention that might change the outcome of immunization.

Interventions: intervention 1: Xolair
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Patients are administered Xolair

Protocol document: