Toward elucidating the full spectrum of mite allergens - State of the art

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 285-298

  Kawamoto, Seiji ^a   Aki, Tsunehiro ^a   Yamashita, Mitsuo ^b   Tategaki, Airo ^a   Fujimura, Takashi ^a   Tsuboi, Shinji ^c   Katsutani, Takashi ^d   Suzuki, Osamu ^a   Shigeta, Seiko ^a   Murooka, Yoshikatsu ^b   Ono, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tsuboi Clinic   (Japan)

^d Katsutani Ogasawara Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allergens; Dermatophagoides; House dust mites; IgE binding spectrum; Recombinant allergens

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIES; ANTIGENS; DIAGNOSIS; PROTEINS; VACCINES;

IMMUNOELECTROPHORETIC ANALYSES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; INSECT BITE; MITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ACARI; ASTIGMATA; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; INSECTA;

EID: 18744401333     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.94.285     Document Type: Review

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