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Food intolerance in patients with angioedema and chronic urticaria: an investigation by Rast and the Alcat Test

LENE HØJ M.D. Copenhagen, Denmark Presented at the XVI European Congress of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Madrid, Spain: June 25-30, 1995 (published – European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Supplement, Number 26, Vol. 50, 1995) The aetiology of the atopic conditions angioedema (AE) and chronic urticaria (CU) has hitherto been obscure with suggestions to allergy or other hypersensitivity as the cause. The aim of this study…

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Influence of food antigens on volumes of circulating white blood cells and platelets aggregation

MARK J. PASULA, Ph.D. Research Director, AMTL Corp., Miami, FL Presented at the 4th International Symposium on Immunological and Clinical Problems of Food Allergy. Milan, Italy: November 5-9, 1989. Published in the Proceedings. Mitogenic properties of peanut and cytohemaglutenin was the first evidence that cytoplasm and it’s surrounding membrane is associated with variable changes of involved cell volume. Such cellular transformation became the principal method for assessment of cellular immunity…

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