A major allergen involved in IgE mediated cockroach hypersensitivity is a 90 kD protein with multiple IgE binding domains

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 409, Issue , 1996, Pages 267-268

  Helm, Ricki M ^a   Cockrell, Gael ^a   Stanley, J Steve ^a   Brenner, Richard ^b   Burks, A Wesley ^a   Bannon, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ALLERGENICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA LIBRARY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST;

BLATTARIA;

EID: 0030426321     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5855-2_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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