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  • 1
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    Woodbury, NY : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Applied Physics Letters 75 (1999), S. 3668-3670 
    ISSN: 1077-3118
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: We report that local modification and its erasing with a nanometer-scale size can be performed at a Au/Si(111) interface using ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM). By applying a negative voltage on the tip, a region was created where no BEEM current flows at the interface and was imaged with BEEM. The modified area can be erased by applying a voltage with the opposite polarity. It is found that the minimum size of writing and erasing corresponds to Au grains, suggesting a method of rewritable memory on a nanometer-scale dimension. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 2
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Allergy 50 (1995), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1398-9995
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Experiments were done to clarify the mechanisms associated with releasability of histamine. First, washed leukocytes from 23 asthmatic patients sensitive to mite allergen were challenged with Der p 1, a major allergen isolated from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, or anti-IgE. A significant correlation was observed between the ratio of Der p 1-specific IgE liter to total IgE level (S/T) in the patient's plasma and either the reactivity (maximal percentage of histamine release; rs= 0.514, P= 0.016, n= 23) or the sensitivity (the minimum allergen concentration required to achieve 25% histamine release; rs= -0.790, P= 0.0002) to Der p 1. Additionally, the reactivity to Der p 1 was significantly correlated with that to anti-IgE (rs= 0.690, P= 0.0012), indicating that an intrinsic cellular property may be one of the contributing factors in immunologic histamine release. In a second series of experiments, sinus mast cells were passively sensitized with immunoglobulins prepared from the patient's plasma. A statistically significant correlation was found between either the reactivity or the sensitivity to Der p 1 and S/T, thus indicating that S/T is an indicator of the releasability of histamine. When basophils or mast cells were passively sensitized with mouse IgE and subsequently stimulated with antimouse IgE, the reactivity to antihuman IgE was significantly correlated with that to antimouse IgE (rs= 0.966, P= 0.0023, n= 11). These observations suggest that an intrinsic cellular property regulates reactivity in immunologic histamine release. Taken together, our results suggest that an intrinsic cellular property, as well as specific IgE antibody levels on the cell surface, is an important factor in determining histamine release in response to IgE-dependent activation.
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  • 3
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Allergy 49 (1994), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1398-9995
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Two cases of atopic asthma caused by acid protease produced by Candida albicans are reported. Both patients had high levels of serum IgE antibodies against the acid protease and showed positive conjunctival and immediate bronchial responses when challenged with the protease. Significant histamine release was detected in both patients when their peripheral leukocytes were challenged with the protease antigen. These findings clearly showed that C. albicans acid protease is the causative allergen of atopic asthma.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1398-9995
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The objective of this study was to define the participation of cysteinyl leukotrienes (LTs) or thromboxane A2 in the pathogenesis of aspirin-sensitive asthma (ASA). Leukotriene E4 (LTE4) and 11-dehydrothromboxane B2 (11DTXB2) values in spot urine were measured in 22 asthmatics with a history of aspirin sensitivity and in 17 without such a history of aspirin-sensitive asthma [NASA]) in the outpatient clinic. The urinary LTE4 value was significantly higher in ASA patients than in NASA (340±47 vs 65±15 pg/mg·cr, P〈0.001), but there was no significant difference in urinary 11DTXB2 between the two groups (891±77 vs 657±90 pg/mg·cr). A high value of LTE4 was not associated with type of asthma, severity of disease, oral prednisolone treatment, sex, or age. A higher value of 11DTXB2 was observed in the atopic type than the nonatopic type in ASA (1086±111 vs 697±147 pg/mg·cr, P〈0.05). No correlation was observed between urinary LTE4 and 11DTXB2 in either ASA or NASA. In conclusion, LTs may play an important role in the pathogenesis of ASA, and TXA2 in the pathogenesis of the atopic type in ASA.
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  • 5
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical & experimental allergy 24 (1994), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: A monoclonal antibody-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (MoAb-ELISA) was developed to measure the major Dermatophagoides mite allergens, Der p I and Der f I, The assay was highly species-specific and sensitive. Using this assay system, the absolute mass unit of Der p I and Der fI in the reference preparations of the extracts was estimated. The primary standards used were the purified Der p I and Der f I preparations. The reference preparations of the D. pteronyssinus and D. farinae extracts (92-Dp) and 92-Df), which had been prepared from the same amount of mite bodies of both species, were found to contain the same levels of the Der I allergens, 10.1 μg/ml of Der p I and 10.0 μg/ml of Der f I, respectively. A histamine release assay with leucocytes from mite-allergic donors showed that the total allergenic potency of 92-Dp and 92-Df was comparable. This result indicates that the estimated Der I levels in these extracts seem to be valid, at least, in the balanece between the two species, although further comparisons of the absolute quantities by several different laboratories are needed. The Der I levels in the WHO/IUIS international reference preparation of D. pteronyssinus and the CBER standard mite extracts, E4-Dp and E5-Df, were also estimated using this assay system. They were found to contain 4.4 μg/viaI and 13.3 μg/ml of Der p I and 9.5 μg/ml of Der f I, respectively.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Background The group 2 Dermatophagoides mite allergens. Der p 2 and Der f 2, were known to he highly crossreactive, and previous assays to measure Der p 2 and Der f 2 were not species-specific.Objective The aim of this study was to develop a monoclonal antibody-based ELISA (MoAb-ELISA) to specics-spccifically measure Der p 2 and Der f 2.Methods The MoAb-ELISA lor Der p 2 and Der f 2 was performed using species-specific MoAbs for Der p 2 and Der f 2 and a biotinylated second MoAb which recognized a common epitope on both Der p 2 and Der f 2.Rcsuits The assay was highly specics-spccific, reproducible and sensitive. Thirty-two house dust samples were assayed by the MoAb-ELISA for Der p 2 and Der f 2 and by a previously reported radioimmunoassay for Der 2 with rabbit anti-Der 2 antibodies. The summed values for Der p 2 and Der f 2 by the MoAb-ELISA detnonstrated a good correlation with the Der 2 values using the radioimmunoassay (r = 0.978). Furthermore, the proportion of the Der p 2 level in the total Der 2 level (Der p 2 divided by Der p 2 plus Der f 2) correlated well with that of the D. pteronyssinus mite number to the total Dermalophagoides mite number identificd by species (r = 0.970).Conclusion The MoAb-ELISA for Der p 2 and Der f 2, as well as that for Der p 1 and Der f 1, will be useful for the standardization of mite extracts and for the assessments of mite allergen exposure.
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  • 7
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical & experimental allergy 23 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: A new set of allergens from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and D. farinae (provisionally named DPS and DF5, respectively) was isolated from the whole culture of mites. The apparent molecular weights of both allergens were shown to be 25000 on SDS-PAGE under a reducing condition and 27000 on Sephadex G-75 gel nitration chromatography. Both DP5 and DF5, as well as Der f III, possessed proteolytic activity. The results of substrate specificity and susceptibility to various protease inhibitors of DP5 and DF5 strongly suggested that they belonged to the chymotrypsin-like serine protease family. In sera from 88 mite-allergic patients, specific IgE antibodies to DP5 and/or DF5 were detected in only 41% of the sera by radio-allergosorbent test, while 90% and 93% had specific IgE antibodies to Der p I and/or Der f I and Der p II and/or Der f II, respecti vely.
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    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
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  • 9
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical & experimental allergy 11 (1981), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The results of the skin, conjunctival and inhalation tests and RAST with Candida antigen were compared with each other in patients with bronchial asthma. The correlation coefficient between the skin test and RAST was 0-50 (P〈0.01). The correlation coefficient between the skin test, RAST and the inhalation tests was 0.36 (P 〈 0.01) and 0 57 (P 〈 0.01). The positive agreement of the inhalation test to the skin test, RAST and the conjunctival test was 77, 86 and 93%, respectively. In this study the conjunctival test was thought to be the best method in place of the inhalation test. There was no significant relation between the serum IgE concentration and the endpoint of the skin titration testing, and a low correlation was noticed between the serum IgE concentration and RAST counts (r= 0.36).
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  • 10
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Experimental dermatology 8 (1999), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1600-0625
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: Citrulline residues are detected in keratins and filaggrin in the cornified layers of mammalian epidermis. Such citrulline residues are formed by the enzymatic deimination of arginine residues by peptidylarginine deiminase (EC 3.5.3.15). Major deiminated keratins are thought to be partially degraded/disulfide-cross-linked keratin K1 based on the immunoblotting profiles. In order to obtain more definitive evidence of the deimination of keratin K1 and also to investigate its functional significance, we attempted to identify its preferred acting sites of peptidylarginine deiminase. A partially degraded keratin K1 fraction obtained from the cornified layer of newborn mouse epideermis was subjected to limited proteolytic cleavages, and the resulting deiminated peptides were fractionated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis or reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography for N-terminal sequencing and/or amino acid analysis. At least two sites were identified, one in the V1 and the other in the V2 subdomains of keratin K1. An undecapeptide sequence covering the latter shows about 70% homology with an undecapeptide sequence in the V2 subdomain of human K1, a presumptive site of deimination. We speculated that the deimination of arginine residues in these subdomains might modulate their interactions with epidermal proteins other than keratins and filaggrin during the terminal stage of epidermal differentiation.
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