IgE from Latex-Allergic Patients Binds to Cloned and Expressed B Cell Epitopes of Prohevein

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5724-5732

  Banerjee, Banani ^a,b   Wang, Xudong ^a,b   Kelly, Kevin J ^a   Fink, Jordan N ^a,b   Sussman, Gordon L ^c   Kurup, Viswanath P ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; EPITOPE; HEV B 6.01 PROTEIN, HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SKIN TEST;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0031302580     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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