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Department of Clinical Immunology, School of Medical Laboratory, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
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Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tianjin Children's Hospital, Tianjin, China.
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R&D Allergy & Immunology Unit, LETI Pharma, Madrid, Spain.
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The use of molecular allergology has increasingly become common in the diagnosis and management of allergic diseases. However, there is still a lack of data on cat molecular allergens in adults. There...
Participants were recruited from the West Asthma Sweden Study, a population-based study enriched with asthma subjects aged 16-75 years. Of 1872, 361 individuals were positive for cat dander immunoglob...
Among cat-sensitized subjects, 84.2% were sensitized to secretoglobin, while 42.4% were sensitized to lipocalins. Nearly half of the subjects were monosensitized to Fel d 1. Polysensitization was obse...
Sensitization to molecular allergens was observed in 90.9% of cat-sensitized subjects and showed variations across participants' background characteristics and the presence of asthma. Identification o...
The relationship between animal exposure and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is debated. Epidemiological studies have shown that atopy is more prevalent in IBS patients and vice versa. We set out to ex...
We recruited 69 consecutive atopic patients from the allergy clinic of a tertiary hospital. Subjects completed validated bowel questionnaires, underwent skin prick test, blood was collected for serum ...
Twenty-eight (41.0%) atopic patients fulfilled the Rome III IBS criteria (atopy-IBS). There were no differences in gender, age, pet ownership, total serum IgE, or food allergen sensitization between a...
We demonstrated an association between animal danders sensitization, in particular cat dander sensitization, and IBS-like symptoms in atopic patients. Future studies are needed to explore the relation...
The diagnostics of allergic occupational diseases is highly dependent on the quality of the allergen extracts and specific IgE tests available. To enhance the diagnostics of bovine-related occupationa...
One hundred patients with a suspected bovine-related occupational disease underwent skin prick tests (SPTs) with in-house and one to two commercial bovine dander extracts. Nasal allergen provocation t...
Odorant-binding protein Bos d OBP, bovine serum albumin Bos d 6, and lipocalin Bos d 2 were identified as the major allergens. We found altogether 24 bovine dander allergens, of which several were for...
Three major and several minor allergens were found from bovine dander as a cause of occupational rhinitis. A sufficient concentration and variety of tested allergens were essential in the diagnostics ...
Selection of chemibeads with different chemical groups, and the best Light-initiated chemiluminescence assay (LiCA) analytical mode for cat dander-sIgE detection. To validate and eliminate the interfe...
Indirect LiCA is the best mode of analysis and biotinylated anti-human IgE antibody at a dilution ratio of 1:250 minimizes IgE interference. The coefficient of variation of the developed LiCA was 1.49...
A cat dander-sIgE quantitation assay based on homogeneous chemiluminescence immunoassay was established, which could be a new reliable analytical tool for the determination of cat dander-sIgE....
In order to reduce the mineralization of soil organic carbon (SOC) and enhance the ability of soil carbon sequestration. Mn-modified waste dander biochar (Mn-BC) was successfully prepared via impregna...
Sensitization to dog is an important risk factor for asthma in children, but the clinical relevance of IgE to available dog- and furry animal allergen molecules is uncertain....
Spirometry, methacholine challenge, fraction of exhaled nitric oxide, nasal challenge with dog extract and questionnaires were performed in 59 dog-sensitized children (age 10-18 years). Serum IgE to d...
Median numbers of positive IgE results to furry animal allergen molecules among children without asthma was 3, with asthma 5.5 and with troublesome asthma 9 (asthma vs. no asthma;...
Polysensitization to furry animal allergens and lipocalins is associated with asthma in dog-sensitized children. Children with troublesome asthma have higher IgE levels to several dog lipocalins than ...
Polysensitization to furry animal allergens and high IgE levels to the dog lipocalins Can f 2, Can f 4 and Can f 6 is associated with asthma severity in dog dander sensitized children. Molecular aller...