Comparison of the interleukin-1β-inducing potency of allergenic spores from higher fungi (basidiomycetes) in a cryopreserved human whole blood system

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 154-162

  Rivera Mariani, Félix E ^a,b   Vysyaraju, Kranthi ^b   Negherbon, Jesse ^a   Levetin, Estelle ^c   Horner, W Elliot ^d   Hartung, Thomas ^a,b   Breysse, Patrick N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^d UL Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Basidiospores; Human whole blood; Interleukin 1 ; Proinflammatory potency

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ALLERGENICITY; ARMILLARIA; ARMILLARIA TABESCENS; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BASIDIOSPORE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOLETUS; BOLETUS BICOLOR; CALVATIA CYATHIFORMIS; CHLOROPHYLLUM MOLYBDITES; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPRINUS; COPRINUS MICACEUS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LYCOPERDON PYRIFORME; MERULIUS TREMELLOSUS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OUDEMANSIELLA RADICATA; PIGMENTATION; PISOLITHUS ARHIZUS; PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS; PLUTEUS CERVINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUPERNATANT; SURFACE PROPERTY; FUNGUS SPORE; MORPHOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ALLERGENS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BLOOD CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNIZATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84896830290     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357036     Document Type: Article

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