Reduced allergenicity of tomato fruits harvested from Lyc e 1-silenced transgenic tomato plants

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1176-1183

  Le, Lien Quynh ^a   Mahler, Vera ^b   Lorenz, Yvonne ^c   Scheurer, Stephan ^c   Biemelt, Sophia ^a   Vieths, Stefan ^c   Sonnewald, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

allergen avoidance; Lyc e 1; RNA interference; tomato allergy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROFILIN;

ADULT; ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; FRUIT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SILENCING; HARVEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SENSITIZATION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 33750524279     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2006.06.031     Document Type: Article

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