Background and Purpose: Although molds are regarded as the main fungal allergen sources, evidence indicates that spores of Basidiomycota including Agaricus bisporus (A. bisporus) can be also found at high concentrations in the environment and may cause as many respiratory allergies as molds. The aim of the present study was to evaluate specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) ...

The importance of immunoglobulin E (IgE) in atopic disorders such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergies, and atopic dermatitis is well established. Elevation of total serum IgE is typically found in many atopic patients, and in predisposed individuals, allergen-specific IgE is produced. The availability of humanized monoclonal antibodies against IgE has provided a new therapeutic option ...

background: the aim of this study was to identify the most common aeroallergens in patients with asthma and rhinitis. methods: the study enrolled 102 participants including 64 patients with respiratory allergies (among them 15 were clinically diagnosed as asthma patients, 41 with rhinitis, 8 were both) and 38 healthy controls. all of participants were subject of skin prick tests (spt) with seri...

background: pediatric bronchial asthma is associated with considerable morbidity. the study was carried out to examine the association of human leukocyte antigen (hla)- class ii with the disease as we found no similar study on asian indian population. objective: to define the hla-class ii antigens in asian indian pediatric patients with asthma. methods: a total of 103 children with asthma and 1...

OBJECTIVES To determine the presence of immunoglobulin E-rheumatoid factor in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and to correlate it with clinical and laboratory parameters. METHODS A multicenter prospective study was carried out from January 1993 to January 1999 with the enrollment of 3 centers of pediatric rheumatology. Ninety-one children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnos...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the population of fez and casablanca in morocco to dry white beans (phaseolus vulgaris) and to investigate the effect of food processing (heat and/or enzymatic hydrolysis by pepsin) on this sensitivity. work was based on a bank consisting of 146 sera from patients with atopic hypersensitivity in order to evaluate specific immunoglobulin e...

psoriasis is a chronic relapsing disorder that involves the skin, nails and joints. with regard to the role of the immune system in psoriasis, the current study compared serum ige concentration in patients with psoriasis with control group. current case-control study was conducted in dermatology clinic of razi hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran in 2012. fifty-eight pa...

Studies of the distribution of total serum immunoglobulin E levels in nonallergic and allergic populations defined a cut-off point between low and high immunoglobulin E at 95 U/ml, based on Mendelian recessive inheritance of high immunoglobulin E level. Subsequent investigations of the distribution of total serum immunoglobulin E levels in 28 allergic families confirmed the recessive hypothesis...