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A Specific Carrier of Chromium Sensitivity

Haim A. Cohen, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1968;98(2):148-151.

Abstract
Twenty patients suffering from contact dermatitis to potassium bichromate showed positive intradermal reactions with chromium chloride and with complexes prepared in vitro of heparin-chromium chloride and hyaluronic acid from human umbilical cord-chromium chloride. The reaction to chromium chloride was inhibited in all 20 patients tested with rabbit liver glycogen-chromium chloride complex prepared in vitro. The observation suggests that in chromium sensitivity occurring naturally in humans, hyaluronic acid might act as a carrier for chromium cation.

Twenty control individuals not suffering from potassium bichromate sensitivity did not react positively to chromium chloride nor to any of the above-mentioned complexes.

Author Affiliations
Jerusalem, Israel

From the Department of Dermatology and Veneralogy, Hadassah-University Hospital and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 17, 1968.

Reprint requests to Department of Dermatology and Veneralogy, Hadassah-University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

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