Rye flour allergens associated with baker's asthma. Correlation between in vivo and in vitro activities and comparison with their wheat and barley homologues

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 428-435

  Garcia Casado G ^a   Armentia, A ^b   Sanchez Monge R ^a   Malpica, J M ^c   Salcedo, G ^a  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amylase inhibitors; Allergens; Baker's asthma; Barley; Homologous proteins; Rye; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; AMYLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BARLEY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLOUR; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; WHEAT;

ALLERGENS; ALPHA-AMYLASE; FLOUR; HORDEUM; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PLANT PROTEINS; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SECALE CEREALE; SKIN TESTS; TRITICUM; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS;

EID: 0029964601     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1996.tb00559.x     Document Type: Article

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