Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a severe cardiopulmonary disease characterized by pulmonary vascular remodeling. Immunoglobulin E (IgE) known to participate in aortic remodeling, but whether IgE mediates unknown. In the present study, we found serum elevation arterial (PAH) patients, hypoxia-induced PH mice and monocrotaline-induced rats. Neutralizing with an anti-IgE antibody was effective prev...

Background Peanuts are one of the most common foods causing allergic reactions in children. IgE-ab sensitization to peanut has been reported in 7–11% of children in Western countries and the prevalence of peanut allergy (PA) in children varies between 0.75% and 3%. Given the PA impact on quality-of-life (QoL), accurate diagnosis is crucial because many sensitized individuals are actually tolera...

One hundred nineteen sera from patients with various lymphoproliferative diseases and normal sera were tested by a solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) for their content in IgE-binding factor (IgE-BF), a soluble glycoprotein binding to IgE and derived from low-affinity IgE receptors (Fc epsilon R). Fc epsilon R, recently identified as CD23, are known to be expressed on the surface of B cells at t...

The Fc region of immunoglobulin E (IgE) comprising the C epsilon 3 and C epsilon 4 domains (residues 329-547) is sufficient for binding to the high-affinity IgE Fc receptor (Fc epsilon RI alpha). Three potential N-linked glycosylation sites are present within the C epsilon 3 domain. To determine the effect of the glycosylation sites on IgE Fc synthesis and on Fc epsilon RI alpha binding, site-d...

The production of IgE specific to different viruses (HIV-1, Parvovirus B19, RSV), and the ability for IgE anti-HIV-1 to suppress HIV-1 production in vitro, strongly suggest an important role for IgE and/or anti viral specific IgE in viral pathogenesis. Previous studies in our laboratory were the first to report the presence of IgE anti-varicella zoster virus (VZV) in an adolescent patient with ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the changes in IgE levels in diagnosis and postoperative monitoring of orbital fungal granuloma. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from July 2012 to June 2013. METHODOLOGY Cases with clinically high index of suspicion for orbital fungal granuloma and 50 healthy volunteers were in...

siifolia) pollen were investigated by mass spectrometry (MS), 2D-PAGE and immunoblotting. Furthermore, Amb a 1 isoallergens were purified and IgE reactivity determined by immunoblotting and IgE inhibition. Results: 2D-PAGE and MS of ragweed extract proved the presence of all 5 known Amb a 1 isoallergens, of which Amb a 1.01 represents the dominant form. Additionally all other ragweed allergens ...

OBJECTIVE A novel form of food allergy has been described that initially became apparent from IgE reactivity with the drug cetuximab. Ongoing work regarding the etiology, distribution, clinical management, and cellular mechanisms of the IgE response to the oligosaccharide galactose-α-1,3-galactose (α-gal) is reviewed. DATA SOURCES Brief review of the relevant literature in peer-reviewed journ...