| Literature DB >> 26214693 |
Catherine Lombard1, Floriane André1, Jérôme Paul2, Catherine Wanty3, Olivier Vosters4, Pierre Bernard5, Charles Pilette6, Pierre Dupont2, Etienne M Sokal7, Françoise Smets7.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Allergy afflicts one third of children, negatively impacting their quality of life and generating a significant socio-economic burden. To this day, this disorder remains difficult to diagnose early in young patients, with no predictive test available.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26214693 PMCID: PMC4516234 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132753
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Definitions of allergy used for the classification of children.
| Type of allergy | Criteria | References |
|---|---|---|
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| Classical atopic dermatitis with at least 1 other criteria: 1) clearly influenced by the diet 2) with bronchial hyperreactivity 3) with positive skin prick test 4) with first degree familial history of atopy | [ |
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| Minimum 3 wheezing episodes in the past year with 1 major criteria or 2 minor criteria: 1) major: asthma in parents, environmental tobacco, medical diagnosis of atopic dermatitis or food allergy 2) minor: positive IgE or skin prick test, wheezing outside RSV infection, eosinophilia | [ |
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| Symptoms driven by one or several food, not present under eviction diet and recurring after provocation | [ |
Cytokines and chemokines analysed by Luminex and detection limits.
| Cytokine | Detection limit (pg/ml) | Inter-plate variability (ratio max/min) |
|---|---|---|
| IL-1 β | 0,65 | 3.94 |
| IL-1ra | 1,21 | 2.29 |
| IL-2 | 0,35 | 1.60 |
| IL-4 | 0,08 | 1.48 |
| IL-7 | 0,71 | 1.56 |
| IL-9 | 0,38 | 1.40 |
| IL-10 | 0,52 | 1.62 |
| IL-12p70 | 0,64 | 1.37 |
| IL-15 | 0,49 | 1.54 |
| IL-17 | 0,53 | 1.59 |
| Eotaxin | 0,44 | 2.2 |
| FGF | 0,3 | 1.80 |
| G-CSF | 0,44 | 2.05 |
| GM-CSF | 0,18 | 1.72 |
| IFN-γ | 0,55 | 2.38 |
| IP-10 | 0,75 | 2.37 |
| TNF-α | 1,6 | 1.50 |
| VEGF | 0,69 | 1.84 |
Fig 1Demographic information on the cohort.
Types of allergies diagnosed in the cohort up to eighteen months and the corresponding percentages of patients affected.
Fig 2Total IgE concentration in the plasma of 18 month old allergic and non-allergic children.
Plasma collected during the 18 month check-up visit was assayed for total IgE. The data are shown as box plots of the median, lower and upper quartile ± standard deviation from the median. Individual dots represent outliers.
Comparison of the cytokine profiles of cord blood mononuclear cells from allergic (All) and non allergic (non all) children.
| Cytokine | Stimulation | Difference (cytokine concentration in pg/ml) | Uncorrected p value | Corrected p value |
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| LPS 24h | All (3115,18) | 0,001171648 | 0,2180631 |
| PHA 24h | All (3862,2) | 0,006945071 | 0,3426423 | |
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| PHA 96h | All (11,12) | 0,0014734 | 0,2180631 |
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| PHA 96h | All (39,14) | 0,005384663 | 0,3426423 |
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| PHA 96h | All (18,38) | 0,006945451 | 0,3426423 |
*Corrected p value: p-value obtained after correction for the large number of variables tested using the Benjamini-Hochberg correction[7]
**Uncorrected p-value: p-value obtained before the correction was applied.
Comparison of the cytokine profiles of CBMCs and PBMCs from IgE-mediated allergic children (IgE+) and the rest of the cohort (IgE- and non all) over the first eighteen months of life.
| Time of blood sampling | Cytokine | stimulation | Difference (cytokine concentration in pg/ml) | Corrected p value |
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| LPS 96h | IgE+ (0,71) | 0,02642649 |
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| PHA 24h | IgE+ (5,30) | 0,007204243 | |
| PHA 96h | IgE+ (3,74) | 0,02108183 | ||
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| LPS 24h | IgE+ (290,36) | 0,01008838 |
| LPS 96h | IgE+ (183,17) | 0,04729766 | ||
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| LPS 96h | IgE+(1,57) | 0,04729766 |
*Corrected p value: p-value obtained after correction for the large number of variables tested using the Benjamini-Hochberg correction[7].