Immunization

IgE shows activity on animal mast-cell sensitization

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 8th, 2002

by Lindsay Edmunds, PhD, ELS, senior medical writer - Experiments with a rat immunization model indicated unchanging levels, but increasing avidity and greater relative proportions, of antigen-specific serum immunoglobulin E, say scientists in Australia.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales investigated the effect of antibody affinity and nonspecific immunoglobulin E (IgE) on mast-cell sensitization in rats. IgE displayed the greatest biological activity on day 10, after which total serum IgE levels declined, although the relative proportion of specific IgE increased between days 10 and 15 (p<.05).

This proportionate increase...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-05-08)

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