Search for low allergenic apple cultivars for birch pollen-allergic patients: Is there a correlation between in vitro a says and patient response?

European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 94-98

  Asero, R ^a   Marzban, G ^b   Martinelli, A ^c   Zaccarini, M ^c   Laimer Da Camara Machado M ^b  

^a CLINICA SAN CARLO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c Consorzio Italiano Vivaisti ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Apple; Bet v 1; Birch; Food allergy; Mal d 1

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADULT; APPLE; ARTICLE; BIRCH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; POLLEN ALLERGY; PROVOCATION TEST;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ALLERGENS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BREEDING; CROSS REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MALUS; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; PRURITUS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN TESTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33645958235     PISSN: 03979148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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