Diagnostic oral food challenges: Procedures and biomarkers

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 383, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 30-38

  Järvinen, Kirsi M ^a   Sicherer, Scott H ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Food allergy; Food specific IgE; Oral food challenge; Prediction; Skin prick test

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; CHYMASE; CYTOKINE; EPITOPE; FOOD ALLERGEN; FORKHEAD BOX PROTEIN 3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 5; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; TRYPTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGENICITY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASOPHIL; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; EGG; EGG ALLERGY; ENTEROCOLITIS; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FISH; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD INTAKE; GOLD STANDARD; HISTAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLAMMATION; INFRARED THERMOMETER; INGESTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAST CELL; MILK; MILK ALLERGY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OCCULT BLOOD; ORAL FOOD CHALLENGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEANUT; PEANUT ALLERGY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLITIS; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROVOCATION TEST; SKIN TEST; THERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; URINE LEVEL; VOMITING; WALNUT;

ALLERGENS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INTRADERMAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84864393750     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2012.02.019     Document Type: Article

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