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Celery sensitivity: clinical and immunological correlations with pollen allergy
Author(s) -
PAULI G.,
BESSOT J. C.,
DIETEMANNMOLARD A.,
BRAUN P. A.,
THIERRY R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1985.tb02285.x
Subject(s) - mugwort , sensitization , allergy , immunology , medicine , pollen , immunoglobulin e , radioallergosorbent test , oral allergy syndrome , antigen , anaphylaxis , allergen , antibody , biology , botany , pathology , alternative medicine
Summary The authors studied twenty patients with celery allergy and concomitant hypersensitivity to certain pollens (mugwort, birch). The specific symptoms induced by eating celery were attacks of urticaria and angio oedema (seventeen out of twenty) respiratory complaints (eight out of twenty), systemic anaphylaxis with vascular collapse (three out of twenty). A strong association between clinical reactions to celery and mugwort sensitization, and to a lesser degree between celery allergy and birch pollen sensitization was established. Celery allergy is mediated by IgE antibodies and can be easily diagnosed by cutaneous tests using fresh material and/or by adequate RAST test. RAST inhibitions performed on individual sera suggest the existence of common antigens in celery and mugwort, and in celery and birch pollen. However, the exact nature of these common antigens has not yet been determined.