orchard workers in north china are highly exposed to orchard pollens, especially peach and other rosaceae family pollens during pollination season. the aim of this study was to investigate whether occupational allergy to peach tree pollen as a member of rosaceae family is ige-mediated and to evaluate the cross-reactivity among rosaceae family pollens. allergen skin test and conjunctival challen...

autosomal dominant congenital cataract (adcc) is the most common form of inherited cataracts and accounts for one-third of congenital cataracts. heterozygous null mutations in the crystallin genes are the major cause of the adcc. this study aims to detect the mutational spectrum of four crystallin genes, cryba1/a3 , crybb1 , crybb2 and crygd in an iranian family. genomic dna was isolated from w...