New frontiers in allergen standardization

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-309

  Reuter, A ^a   Luttkopf D ^a   Vieths, S ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ALLERGENICITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SKIN TEST; STANDARDIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTIGENS, PLANT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 58849094942     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2008.03188.x     Document Type: Editorial

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