Detection of allergen-specific IgE in tears of grass pollen-allergic patients with allergic rhinoconjunctivitis

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-87

  Hoffmann Sommergruber, K ^a   Ferreira, F D ^b   Ebner, C ^a   Barisani, T ^a   Korninger, L ^a   Kraft, D ^a   Scheiner, O ^a,c   Baumgartner, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergic conjunctivitis; Grass pollen; IgA; IgE; Immunoblotting; Phleum pratense; Tears

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LACRIMAL FLUID; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

ALLERGENS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POACEAE; POLLEN; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SEASONS; TEARS; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0030067667     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1996.tb00059.x     Document Type: Article

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