Increasing allergy potency of Zinnia pollen grains in polluted areas

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-272

  Chehregani, Abdolkarim ^a,b   Majde, Ahmad ^a   Moin, Mostafa ^c   Gholami, Mansour ^b   Shariatzadeh, Mohammad Ali ^d   Nassiri, Hosein ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^d ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Allergotoxicology; Allergy; Electron microscopy; Pollen; Proteins

Indexed keywords

POLLEN ANTIGEN; PROTEIN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; POLLEN; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; IMMATURITY; MALE; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLLUTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SYMPTOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GUINEA PIGS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IRAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLLEN; PROTEINS; SKIN TESTS;

ZINNIA;

EID: 2442526302     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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