Successful sublingual immunotherapy with birch pollen has limited effects on concomitant food allergy to apple and the immune response to the Bet v 1 homolog Mal d 1

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 937-943

  Kinaciyan, Tamar ^a   Jahn Schmid, Beatrice ^b   Radakovics, Astrid ^b   Zwölfer, Bettina ^b   Schreiber, Claudia ^a   Francis, James N ^c   Ebner, Christof ^d   Bohle, Barbara ^b  

^a Division of Immunology   (Australia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d Allergy Clinic Reumannplatz   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bet v 1; Birch pollen allergy; cross reactivity; food allergy; oral allergy syndrome; sublingual immunotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BET V 1 ANTIGEN; BIRCH POLLEN EXTRACT; EPITOPE; FOOD ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; MAL D 1 PROTEIN; PLACEBO; POLLEN ANTIGEN; POLLEN EXTRACT; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; APPLE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CROSS REACTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SENSITIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADULT; ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETULA; CELL LINE; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH MUCOSA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

EID: 34047150705     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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