What Makes an Allergen an Allergen

What makes an antigen a food allergen?

A limited number of foods are responsible for the majority of reactions in IgE-mediated food allergy, seafood, peanut and tree nut allergies predominating in adults whilst cow’s milk and hen’s egg are important allergenic foods for infants. Over the past 10 years there has been an explosion in the numbers of well characterized allergens which have been sequenced and collected into a number of d...

Latex, an intriguing allergen.

Heat Shock Protein 60: Identification of an Undetected Allergen from Dermatophagoides farinae

Background: Recently, the incidence of allergic diseases has been on the rise; Dust mite is the major indoor allergen which needs a special consideration.Objectives: This study was carried out to identify and investigate the molecular properties of a new allergen named Hsp60 and to afford a foundation for future research of the allergic diseases caused by...

What Makes an Insight Problem? 1 Running Head: What Makes an Insight Problem? What Makes an Insight Problem? 2

Four experiments investigated transformation problems with insight characteristics. Experiment 1 examined two versions of the six-coin problem with different solution properties. Performance on one version with a concrete and visualizable solution followed predictions derived from assuming a hill-climbing heuristic. The determinant of performance on the second version, in which the solution pot...

Industrial Fungal Enzymes: An Occupational Allergen Perspective

Occupational exposure to high-molecular-weight allergens is a risk factor for the development and pathogenesis of IgE-mediated respiratory disease. In some occupational environments, workers are at an increased risk of exposure to fungal enzymes used in industrial production. Fungal enzymes have been associated with adverse health effects in the work place, in particular in baking occupations. ...