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  • 1985-1989  (8)
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  • 1
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Sera from 30 workers in an entomological research institute and from five Sydney asthmatics, all with serum IgE antibodies to sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) antigens, were studied with the aim of identifying individual IgE-binding proteins in extracts of L. cuprina adult flies, larvae and eggs, and in extracts of related species of flies from the order Diptera. Using protein blotting, 21, 18 and nine different IgE-binding components were identified in extracts of L. cuprina adult flies, larvae and eggs, respectively. A component(s)of MW 67 kD found in all three developmental stages, showed the highest frequency of IgE-binding; reacting, for example, with 70% of the sera tested with the adult fly extract. Some components were detected in only one of the three developmental stages. Investigations of possible allergenic cross-reactivity between L. cuprina and extracts from six other related species of flies revealed IgE-binding bands in each of the extracts as well as in an extract of Agrotis infusa, a cutworm not belonging to the order Diptera. One strongly reacting component of MW 20 kD was detected in extracts of five different fly species as well as in the A. infusa extract. The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
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  • 2
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical & experimental allergy 16 (1986), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: A radioimmunoassay was developed to detect IgE antibodies to the anaesthetic induction agent thiopentone. Significant levels of thiopentone-reactive IgE antibodies were found in the sera of two patients who had experienced life-threatening anaphylactoid reactions following administration of the drug. Inhibition experiments revealed that cross-reactivity occurs between the drug-reactive IgE antibodies and four barbiturate analogues pentobarbitone, phenobarbitone, barbitone and methohexital. The assay should supplement skin testing for the detection of patients with potentially lethal sensitivity to thiopentone.
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  • 3
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical & experimental allergy 17 (1987), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: An immunoassay was developed to detect IgE antibodies to the widely used antibacterial drug trimethoprim. Significant levels of trimethoprim-reactive IgE antibodies were found in the sera of two patients who had experienced life-threatening allergic reactions following administration of a combination of trimethoprim and sulphamethoxazole. No IgE antibodies reactive with sulphamethoxazole were found in the sera of either patient. Inhibition experiments revealed that a high degree of cross-reactivity occurs between the drug-reactive IgE antibodies and two structural analogues of trimethoprim. 6-hydroxy- and 6-chloroirimethoprim. These experiments also indicated that the combining sites of the trimethoprim-reactive IgE antibodies in the two sera were probably complementary to different parts of the trimethoprim molecule. The assay should supplement skin testing in determining the offending drug in patients with suspected allergic sensitivity to trimethoprim–sulphamethoxazole complex.
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  • 4
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical & experimental allergy 16 (1986), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2222
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: An allergic reaction, provoked by exposure to the blowfly Lucilia cuprina and shown to be IgE-mediated, occurred in a subject employed in an entomological research laboratory. The subject's serum, and sera from three other asthmatic patients with IgE antibodies to blowfly extracts, also reacted with extracts from the screw-worm fly (Chrysomya bezziana). Results suggested that antigens from the two species share immunological cross-reactivity. Cross-reactions also exist between the different developmental stages of both species. Allergic reactions to inhaled insect allergens may not be uncommon in the Australian community.
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  • 5
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Allergy 44 (1989), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1398-9995
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
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  • 6
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Allergy 43 (1988), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1398-9995
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The combining site specificities of IgE antibodies that react with the oral antibacterial agent trimethoprim and found in the sera of two subjects who experienced anaphylaxis after taking the drug, were investigated. Hapten inhibition studies with some close analogues of trimethoprim and a range of other structurally related compounds showed that the allergenic determinant complementary to the IgE antibodies in the serum of one of the subjects was the 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl group. The complementary allergenic structure recognized by the IgE antibodies in the serum from the second subject comprised both the trimethoxybenzyl and diaminopyrimidine rings of trimethoprim. Thus, as with thiopentone, but unlike the neuromuscular blocking drugs, the trimethoprim molecule has more than one determinant each with the capacity to provoke IgE formation, interact with the antibody combining site and provoke drug-induced allergic reactions. The general approach set out here employing carefully selected structural analogues in hapten inhibition studies should be invaluable for confirming specificity and identifying allergenic determinants in IgE antibody-mediated allergic drug reactions.
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  • 7
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    Springer
    Inflammation research 17 (1985), S. 27-31 
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract On the basis of previous findings that histamine-N-methyltransferase (HMT) activity can be significantly enhanced or inhibited by a number of analogues of histamine and drugs containing dialkylaminoalkyl moieties, we investigated whether the neuromuscular blocking drugs alcuronium,d-tubocurarine, decamethonium, succinylcholine, gallamine and pancuronium each of which contain quaterhary ammonium groups, influence the activity of HMT. Our findings showed that all six drugs significantly inhibited HMT activity in the concentration range 10−7–10−3 M with alcuronium being the most potent inhibitor (I.D.50=2×10−6 M). Activities at these concentrations reveals that alcuronium, pancuronium,d-tubocurarine and gallamine are more potent inhibitors than two of the most potent histamine analogue inhibitors,N τ-methylhistamine and 2-methylhistamine. Alcuronium proved to be of similar potency to the dimaprit analogue, SKF 91488 regarded as one of the most potent HMT inhibitors known. The structurally similar and chemically least complex straight chain neuromuscular blocking compounds, succinylcholine and decamethonium proved to be the least potent inhibitors.
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  • 8
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    Springer
    Inflammation research 18 (1986), S. 512-517 
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The snake neurotoxins α-bungarotoxin (α-BGT) and β-bungarotoxin (β-BGT) which act at the neuromuscular junction, were found to bind to IgE antibodies directed against neuromuscular blocking (NMB) drugs in the sera of two patients who had experienced lifethreatening anaphylactic reactions to succinylcholine. α-BGT inhibited IgE-binding to a choline-Sepharose solid support in one patient better than the NMB drug alcuronium, choline, triethylcholine and β-BGT. IC50s for α-BGT and succinylcholine were 16 and 10 nmol respectively for one patient and 34 and 6.0 nmol for the other. Recognition of the NMB drugs and α-BGT by the same antibody is the first demonstration of an antigenic similarity between these drugs and the protein toxin.
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