Characterization of recombinant cat albumin

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1695-1702

  Reininger, R ^a   Swoboda, I ^a   Bohle, B ^a   Hauswirth, A W ^a   Valent, P ^a   Rumpold, H ^a   Valenta, R ^a   Spitzauer, S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Cat albumin; Cat allergy; Recombinant allergen

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIGEN; CD203C ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEXAHISTIDINE; HISTIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RECOMBINANT CAT ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AGED; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGY; AMBIENT AIR; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASOPHIL; CELL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL ALLERGY; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALBUMINS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BASOPHIL DEGRANULATION TEST; CATS; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0346846732     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2003.01817.x     Document Type: Article

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