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M W Greaves, S Yamamoto, V M Fairley.
Abstract
A new simple and sensitive in-vitro method for the diagnosis of type 1 (IgE-mediated) hypersensitivity in man is described. Sliced human skin is passively sensitized by reaginic serum from allergic patients and the presence of antigen-specific IgE on the sensitized slices is detected by assay of antigen-evoked histamine release. Serum from 12 out of 14 patients with clinical respiratory allergy and positive skin tests gave significant antigen-specific histamine release. This method, which is essentially an in-vitro model of the Prausnitz-Küstner reaction, should prove of value in the diagnosis of human reaginic hypersensitivity in man.Entities:
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Year: 1972 PMID: 4113261 PMCID: PMC1788399 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5814.623
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br Med J ISSN: 0007-1447