Role of imbalance of eicosanoid pathways and staphylococcal superantigens in chronic rhinosinusitis.

abstract：:We measured the IgG subclass antibody levels to wheat flour in 42 bakers and 20 controls with an enzyme immunoassay. The levels of total IgG, IgG1 IgG2 and IgG4 antibodies were significantly higher in the bakers than in the unexposed controls. The presence of anti-wheat flour IgG subclass antibodies in the bakers was ...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Tiikkainen U,Klockars M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 1988, numerous allergen immunotherapy guidelines (AIT-GLs) have been developed by national and international organizations to guide physicians in AIT. Even so, AIT is still severely underused. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate AIT-GLs with AGREE-II, developed in 2010 by McMaster University methodologists to compr...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Larenas-Linnemann DES,Antolín-Amérigo D,Parisi C,Nakonechna A,Luna-Pech JA,Wedi B,Davila I,Gómez M,Levin M,Ortega Martell JA,Klimek L,Rosario N,Muraro AM,Agache I,Bousquet J,Sheikh A,EAACI International Societies Council.

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes can cause allergic asthma and rhinitis. Although patients sometimes complain of symptoms in their throat, we have not been able to find any published report of pharyngeal edema caused by exposure to enzymes. We present the case of a maintenance foreman who worked in a factory producing enzymes, and who had pha...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Hytönen M,Vanhanen M,Keskinen H,Tuomi T,Tupasela O,Nordman H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of the ocular surface disease in atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) and vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) has not been fully understood. We tried to clarify the differences in the ocular surface status in patients with AKC, VKC, and healthy control subjects. METHODS:Twenty-four eyes of 12 AK...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Hu Y,Matsumoto Y,Dogru M,Okada N,Igarashi A,Fukagawa K,Tsubota K,Fujishima H

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The precise immunological mechanisms for the early clinical protection of venom immunotherapy (VIT) have not yet been explained. Our aim was to evaluate whether high-affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI) and the related basophil function have a role in the induction of short-term VIT protection. METHODS:We included...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Čelesnik N,Vesel T,Rijavec M,Šilar M,Eržen R,Košnik M,Kloft Žitnik SE,Avčin T,Korošec P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with recurrent lower respiratory tract infection (RLRI) may respond poorly to polysaccharide antigens. To examine how such children respond to a polysaccharide coupled to a protein carrier, we immunized 15 children with RLRI aged 8-69 months and 15 carefully age-matched healthy controls once with a Haemophilu...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Kristensen K,Barington T,Pressler T,Heilmann C

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to house-dust-mite allergens is an important cause of allergic reactions in sensitized patients. In community-based studies, sensitization to house-dust mites, as ascertained by a positive skin test or by an increased allergen-specific IgE level in serum, is associated with both diminished lung function and e...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： van der Heide S,Dubois AE,Kauffman HF,de Monchy JG

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-33 (IL-33) is a member of the IL-1 cytokine family, which includes IL-1 and IL-18, and is considered to be important for host defense against nematodes by inducing Th2 cytokine production via the IL-33 receptor. IL-33 receptor is a heterodimer of IL-1 receptor-like 1 (IL-1RL1; also called ST2, T1, Der4, an...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Ohno T,Morita H,Arae K,Matsumoto K,Nakae S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of food IgE-dependent hypersensitivity is based on the demonstration of specific IgE, completed by provocation tests. Two immunoenzymatic techniques, the Phadezym and the FAST, are compared with the Phadebas RAST, in 86 sera (23 controls, 28 from patients with a reported food allergy and 35 with a positi...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Moneret-Vautrin DA,Gueant JL,Abdel-Ghani A,Maria Y,Nicolas JP

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence indicates that Staphylococcus aureus, one of the most important human pathogens, secretes vesicles into the extracellular milieu. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether inhalation of S. aureus-derived extracellular vesicles (EV) is causally related to the pathogenesis of inflammatory pulmonary diseas...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Kim MR,Hong SW,Choi EB,Lee WH,Kim YS,Jeon SG,Jang MH,Gho YS,Kim YK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramuscular adrenaline is the gold standard treatment for anaphylaxis. Intramuscular injection provides more rapid and higher plasma concentrations than subcutaneous routes. Given the increasing epidemic of obesity patients are at increased risk of subcutaneous delivery, we therefore assessed the depth of subcutaneo...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Johnstone J,Hobbins S,Parekh D,O'Hickey S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequential human herpes virus (HHV) reactivation is well known in drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptom (DRESS), but such a phenomenon has seldom studied in other types of cutaneous adverse drug reactions (cADRs). Moreover, the association between viral reactivations and cytokine or chemokine ...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Chen YC,Chiang HH,Cho YT,Chang CY,Chen KL,Yang CW,Lee YH,Chu CY

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ispaghula powder, which is used as a component in bulk laxatives, is known to induce allergic reactions when inhaled by occupationally exposed persons. We have tested whether nurses sensitized by inhalation could get allergic symptoms when challenged by eating ispaghula. Of six nurses tested, all developed symptoms fr...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Machado L,Stålenheim G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allergic asthma is a multifactorial and probably multigenic inflammatory disease of the upper airways, and has been associated with the HLA class II alleles DR4 and DR7. Here we investigated possible associations with other polymorphic susceptibility/resistance genes located within the major histocompatibili...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Aron Y,Busson M,Polla BS,Dusser D,Lockhart A,Swierczewski E,Favatier F

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bronchial epithelium acts as a physical barrier to the ingress of airborne irritants and plays an active role in the airways immune response, reacting to a range of environmental stimuli to enable interaction with immune and inflammatory cells. It is well established that mucosal damage and epithelial cell sheddin...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Davies DE,Polosa R,Puddicombe SM,Richter A,Holgate ST

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of total serum-IgE and factors of importance for the level of IgE was studied in a random sample of 508 children and adolescents, aged 7-16 years, from Copenhagen. A detailed history about asthma, rhinitis, dermatitis and urticaria was obtained, and a physical examination, skin prick test with 9 commo...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Backer V,Ulrik CS,Wendelboe D,Bach-Mortensen N,Hansen KK,Laursen EM,Dirksen A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of single-allergen-specific immunotherapy in polysensitized subjects is a matter of debate. We therefore performed a post hoc analysis of pooled data from six randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (N = 1871) comparing the efficacy and safety of the SQ-standardized grass allergy immunotherapy...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Nelson H,Blaiss M,Nolte H,Würtz SØ,Andersen JS,Durham SR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Nasal allergen provocations may be useful in investigating the pathophysiology of allergic rhinitis and effects of treatments. OBJECTIVE:To use grass pollen nasal allergen challenge (NAC) to investigate the effects of allergen immunotherapy in a cross-sectional study. METHODS:We studied nasal and cutaneous ...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Scadding GW,Eifan AO,Lao-Araya M,Penagos M,Poon SY,Steveling E,Yan R,Switzer A,Phippard D,Togias A,Shamji MH,Durham SR

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with spina bifida (SB) are exposed to latex soon after birth during bladder catheterization, rectal disimpaction, and multiple surgical procedures. IgE-mediated latex-allergic reactions have been reported recently in these children. Our study was designed to assess the prevalence of allergic reactio...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Kattan H,Harfi H,Tipirneni P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several reasons for considering the hypothesis that food hypersensitivity might relate to rheumatic diseases. Food can evoke immune responses. Food can cause immunologically mediated symptoms. Immunological mechanisms are important in the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases. Antigens triggering rheumatic resp...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Panush RS,Veloso ML,Weiss S,Bielory L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of a thromboxane synthetase inhibitor (OKY-046) and a cyclooxygenase inhibitor (indomethacin) on bronchial hyperresponsiveness induced by subthreshold concentration of aerosolized thromboxane A2 analogue (STA2) were investigated in anesthetized, artificially ventilated guinea pigs in order to examine the role ...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Saito M,Fujimura M,Sakamoto S,Miyake Y,Shintani H,Yasui M,Matsuda T

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper reports a study on the concentrations of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-18 and IL-1beta in nasal secretions of allergic rhinitis patients in relation to ECP and nasal symptoms. METHODS:We measured IL-18 and IL-1beta concentrations using ELISA, and eosinophilic cationic protein (ECP) using the ...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Verhaeghe B,Gevaert P,Holtappels G,Lukat KF,Lange B,Van Cauwenberge P,Bachert C

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monocyte (Mo) subsets exhibiting distinct phenotypic and functional properties identified in peripheral blood are assumed to be under the control of soluble factors from their surrounding micromilieu. Atopic eczema/dermatitis syndrome (AEDS) is accompanied by humoral and cellular alterations among which an i...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Novak N,Allam P,Geiger E,Bieber T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) of the human gut are heterogeneous, including both macrophages, a variety of dendritic cells and B cells. They are found both in gut-associated lymphoid tissue and in the mucosal lamina propria, especially beneath the surface epithelium. APCs have diverse phenotypes and therefore probab...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Brandtzaeg P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Partial mattress encasing was found to be effective in reducing exposure to mite allergen in our previous investigation. We aimed to compare the short-term efficacy of partial and complete mattress encasing and to study mite-allergen levels within these mattresses. METHODS:Thirty-one mattresses with high mi...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Vichyanond P,Uthaisangsook S,Ruangruk S,Malainual N

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic allergic reactions are a risk for allergen immunotherapy that utilizes intact allergen preparations. We evaluated the safety, efficacy and immune mechanisms of short-course treatment with adjuvant-free Lolium perenne peptides (LPP) following a 6-week dose-escalation protocol. METHODS:In a prospecti...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Mösges R,Koch AF,Raskopf E,Singh J,Shah-Hosseini K,Astvatsatourov A,Hauswald B,Yarin Y,Corazza F,Haazen L,Pirotton S,Allekotte S,Zadoyan G,Legon T,Durham SR,Shamji MH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of widely expressed ORM-like (ORMDL) proteins has been recently linked to asthma in genomewide association studies in humans and extensively explored in in vivo studies in mice. ORMDL proteins are key regulators of serine palmitoyltransferase, an enzyme catalyzing the initial step of sphingolipid biosynthesis...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Paulenda T,Draber P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily sensitization of SPF BNxWi/Fu rats with ovalbumin (OA) in aerosol during 2-week periods with a 4-week interval resulted after 7 weeks in IgE, IgA and IgG antibodies in serum and bronchial fluid. After cultivation of the regional, axillary, brachial and mediastinal (ABM) lymph node cells, IgE antibodies were foun...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Ahlstedt S,Björkstén B,Hesselmar B,Nygren H,Alving K,Olaisson E

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allergic rhinitis is commonly divided into seasonal and perennial rhinitis. The recent Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) workshop proposes to replace these terms by intermittent vs persistent rhinitis. METHODS:In order to test the new ARIA classification against the classical one used in med...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Demoly P,Allaert FA,Lecasble M,Bousquet J,PRAGMA.

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypes and receptors of the intraepithelial lymphocytes which are a major component of the mucosal immune system are of considerable interest. Intraepithelial lymphocytes, especially those of the intestines, are well documented. The nasal intraepithelial lymphocytes probably play a key role in the immune defen...

journal_title：Allergy

authors： Pawankar R,Okuda M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00