Clinical significance of IgE-binding activity to enzymatic digests of ovomucoid in the diagnosis and the prediction of the outgrowing of egg white hypersensitivity

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 192-198

  Urisu, Atsuo ^a,c   Yamada, Kazue ^b   Tokuda, Reiko ^a   Ando, Hitoshi ^a   Wada, Eiko ^a   Kondo, Yasuto ^a   Morita, Yutaka ^b  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kariya General Hospital   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin; Egg hypersensitivity; Food challenges double blind placebo controlled; IgE antibodies specific; Ovomucoid; Pepsin; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; EGG WHITE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LYSOZYME; OVALBUMIN; OVOMUCOID; OVOTRANSFERRIN; PEPSIN A; TRYPSIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST;

EID: 0032728457     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000024267     Document Type: Article

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