Impact of urbanization level on chenopodium album pollen: Morphological and immunochemical data;Impacto do nível de urbanização no pólen de chenopodium album: Morfologia e imunoquímica

Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-41

  Sousa, Raquel ^a   Cruz, Ana Paula ^b   Ribeiro, Helena ^a   Abreu, Ilda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO HOSPITALAR DE VILA NOVA DE GAIA ESPINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Allergy; Atmospheric pollution; Chenopod; Immunoblot

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E BINDING PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROFILIN 3 POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM POLLEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHASE SEPARATION; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RURAL AREA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 80053158819     PISSN: 08719721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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