The spectrum of immunologic sensitization in latex allergy

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 2-12

  Kurup, V P ^a   Fink, J N ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCANASE; ADRENALIN; ALLERGEN; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ENOLASE; EPHEDRINE; HEV B 3 PROTEIN; HEV B 4 PROTEIN; HEV B 5 PROTEIN; HEV B 7 PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PROFILIN; PROHEVEIN; RUBBER ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLERGENS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; EPITOPES; FORECASTING; FRUIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0035141737     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1398-9995.2001.00130.x     Document Type: Review

References (119)

1. Anaphylaxis associated with latex allergy during barium enema examinations
2. Rubber anaphylaxis
3. Hypersensitivity to natural latex
4. The spectrum of IgE-mediated responses to latex
5. Natural rubber latex allergy
6. Occupational asthma caused by latex in a surgical glove manufacturing plant
7. Incidence of immediate allergy to latex gloves in hospital personnel
8. Contact urticaria to rubber
9. Allergic reactions to rubber gloves in dental patients: Report of three cases
10. Health risk in hospital through airborne allergens for patients presensitized to latex
11. Cornstarch powder on latex products is allergen carrier
12. Management of latex allergic patients
13. The history and diagnosis of latex allergy
14. Contact urticaria from latex surgical gloves
15. Manifestations of latex allergy
16. Contact urticaria and anaphylaxis to natural latex
17. Contact urticaria from natural latex gloves
18. Latex hypersensitivity reactions despite prophylaxis
19. Systemic anaphylaxis during rectal manometry with a latex balloon
20. Condoms as a source of latex allergen and cause of contact urticaria
21. Nasal challenge, skin tests, and serum antibodies in the diagnosis of latex-induced occupational rhinitis
22. Latex as aeroallergen
23. Quantitation of occupational latex aeroallergen in a medical center
24. Anaphylaxis produced by rubber glove contact. Case reports and immunological identification of the antigens involved
25. Intraoperative cardiovascular collapse secondary to latex allergy
26. Anaphylaxis to latex during surgery
27. Severe intraoperative anaphylaxis to surgical gloves: Latex allergy, an unfamiliar condition
28. Anaphylaxis to latex in intravenous fluids
29. "Latex-fruit syndrome": Frequency of cross-reacting IgE antibodies
30. Class I chitinases as potential panallergens involved in the latex fruit syndrome
31. Hypersensitivity to latex, chestnut and banana
32. Sensitization from chestnuts and bananas in patients with urticaria and anaphylaxis from contact with latex
33. Latex allergy: Clinical features and cross reactivity with fruits
34. Allergy to latex, avocado, pear and banana: Evidence for a 30 kd antigen in immunoblotting
35. Wound-induced accumulation of mRNA containing a hevein sequence in laticifers of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)
36. Ubiquitous structures responsible for IgE cross-reactivity between tomato fruit and grass pollen allergens
37. Co- and post-translational processing of the hevein preproprotein of latex of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)
38. Cross reactivity of food allergens in latex allergy
39. Structure and function of chitin binding proteins
40. Prohevein from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a major latex allergen
41. Plant chitinases
42. "Latex-fruit syndrome": Frequency of cross-reacting IgE antibodies
43. Cloning and characterization of latex allergen (Hev b 7): Homology to patatin, a plant PLA2
44. Plant defense-related enzymes as latex antigens
45. One of the rubber latex allergens in a lysozyme
46. Identification of an IgE binding component in latex from Hevea brasiliensis: Clinical implications
47. The primary structure of hevamine, an enzyme with lysozyme/chitinase activity from Hevea brasiliensis latex
48. The latex of Hevea brasiliensis contains high levels of both chitinases and chitinases lysozymes
49. Dermatitis from rubber gloves
50. An allergic reaction to rubber dam
51. Allergic reactions to rubber condoms
52. Incidence of immediate allergy to latex gloves in hospital personnel
53. Prospective study of risk factors in natural rubber latex hypersensitivity
54. Latex allergy in hospital employees
55. Stop the sensitization
56. A cluster of anaphylactic reactions in children with spina bifida during general anesthesia: Epidemiologic features, risk factors, and latex hypersensitivity
57. Comparison of latex hypersensitivity among patients with neurologic defects
58. The diagnosis of natural rubber latex allergy
59. Characterization of latex antigen and demonstration of latex-specific antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in patients with latex hypersensitivity
60. Detection of immunoglobulin antibodies in the sera of patients using purified latex allergens
61. Latex allergy: Frequent occurrence of IgE antibodies to a cluster of 11 latex proteins in patients with spina bifida and histories of anaphylaxis
62. Characterization and identification of latex allergens by two-dimensional electrophoresis and protein microsequencing
63. The allergens of Hevea brasiliensis
64. A two-dimensional electrophoretic analysis of latex peptides reacting with IgE and IgG antibodies from patients with latex allergy
65. Characterization of latex antigens and allergens in surgical gloves and natural rubber by immunoelectrophoretic methods
66. Anaphylaxis produced by rubber glove extract. Case report and immunological identification of the antigens involved
67. Characterization of a major latex allergen associated with hypersensitivity in spina bifida patients
68. Comparison of latex antigens from surgical gloves, ammoniated and nonammoniated latex: Effect of ammonia treatment on natural rubber latex proteins
69. Study of the allergic fractions of latex
70. Surgical glove latex glove allergy: Characterization of rubber protein allergens by immunoblotting
71. Latex antigens
72. Diagnostic performance of Food and Drug Administration-cleared serologic assays for natural rubber latex - Specific IgE antibody
73. Diagnosis of natural rubber latex allergy: Multicenter latex skin testing efficacy study
74. The rubber elongation factor of rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) is the major allergen in latex
75. Rubber elongation factor from Hevea brasiliensis. Identification, characterization, and role in rubber biosynthesis
76. Amino acid sequence of rubber elongation factor protein associated with rubber particles in Hevea latex
77. Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequencing of the rubber elongation factor gene from Hevea brasiliensis
78. On the allergenicity of Hev b 1 among health care workers and patients with spina bifida allergic to natural rubber latex
79. Purified and recombinant latex proteins stimulate peripheral blood lymphocytes of latex allergic patients
80. Demonstration of beta-1,3-glucanase activities in lutoids of Hevea brasiliensis latex
81. Latex B-serum beta-1,3-glucanase (Hev b 2) and a component of the microhelix (Hev b 4) are major latex allergens
82. Beta-1,3-glucanase is highly-expressed in laticifers of Hevea brasiliensis
83. The 14.6 kd rubber elongation factor (Hev b 1) and 24 kd (Hev b 3) rubber particle proteins are recognized by IgE from patients with spina bifida and latex allergy
84. Characterization of a major latex allergen associated with hypersensitivity in spina bifida patients
85. Characterization of T cell responses to Hev b 3, an allergen associated with latex allergy in spina bifida patients
86. A novel acidic allergen, Hev b 5, in latex. Purification, cloning and characterization
87. Identification, cloning, and sequence of a major allergen (Hev b 5) from natural rubber latex (Hevea brasiliensis)
88. Human T-cell epitopes of the latex allergen Hev b 5 in health care workers
89. Wound-induced accumulation of mRNA containing a hevein sequence in laticifers of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)
90. IgE from latex-allergic patients binds to cloned and expressed b cell epitopes of prohevein
91. The main IgE binding epitopes of a major latex allergen, prohevein is present in its 43 amino acid fragment hevein
92. cDNA cloning of the 43-kDa latex allergen Hev b 7 with sequence similarity to patatins and its expression in the yeast Pichia pastoris
93. Purification and characterization of an inhibitor of rubber biosynthesis from C-serum of Hevea brasiliensis latex
94. Identification of profilin as an IgE-binding component in latex from Hevea brasiliensis: Clinical implications
95. Natural latex, grass pollen, and weed pollen share IgE epitopes
96. Profilin, a relevant allergen in latex allergy
97. Molecular cloning of major and minor allergens of Alternaria alternata and Cladosporium herbarum
98. Molecular cloning, characterization and expression of Mn-superoxide dismutase from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)
99. Humoral and cell-mediated autoimmunity in allergy to Aspergillus fumigatus
100. Differential IgE recognition of recombinant Aspergillus fumigatus allergens by cystic fibrosis patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis or Aspergillus allergy
101. The latex of Hevea brasiliensis contains high levels of both chitinases and chitinases/lysozymes
102. One of the rubber latex allergens in a lysozyme
103. Prohevein from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a major latex allergen
104. Latex hypersensitivity. An emerging problem
105. A murine model of latex allergy induced airway hypersensitivity
106. Immune response and airway reactivity in wild and IL-4 knockout mice exposed to latex allergens
107. Investigations into the cellular immune responses in latex allergy
108. Basophil histamine release and lymphocyte proliferation tests in latex contact urticaria
109. Lymphocyte proliferation response to extracts from different latex materials and to the purified latex allergen Hev b 1 (rubber elongation factor)
110. Immunoglobulin E-mediated natural rubber latex (NRL) hypersensitivity
111. IgE epitope analysis of the hevein preprotein; a major latex allergen
112. Regulation of plant pathogenesis related enzymes: Inhibition of chitinase and chitinase mRNA accumulation in cultured tobacco tissues by auxins and cytokines
113. Differential expression with a family of novel mould-induced genes in potato
114. Unique and shared IgE epitopes of Hev b 1 and Hev b 3 for patients with latex hypersensitivity
115. Murine B-cell and T-cell epitopes of the allergen Hev b 5 from natural rubber latex