The prevalence of sensitization to natural rubber latex in the general population is around 1%. However, occupational latex allergy is considerably higher in people who work wearing latex gloves. Furthermore, almost 50% of these allergic patients also show hypersensitivity to some plant foods, especially chestnut, banana, and avocado, but also to kiwi, papaya, tomato and others. The name "latex...

Brain size in vertebrates varies principally with body size. Although many studies have examined the variation of brain size in birds, there is little information on Palaeognaths, which include the ratite lineage of kiwi, emu, ostrich and extinct moa, as well as the tinamous. Therefore, we set out to determine to what extent the evolution of brain size in Palaeognaths parallels that of other bi...

BACKGROUND Fruits and vegetables may contain both labile and stable allergens. The former induce only OAS, whereas stable allergens may induce systemic reactions. Component-resolved diagnosis (CRD) of allergy to plant foods is therefore essential for the clinical management of allergic patients. METHODS 80 adults allergic to plant foods underwent SPT with purified natural date palm profilin (...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance and safety of the Kiwi Omnicup and compare it to conventional vacuum cups in routine clinical practice. DESIGN A randomised controlled trial of the Kiwi Omnicup versus conventional vacuum cups. SETTING Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, a tertiary referral hospital in London from April 2001 to March 2004. POPULATION Women requiring assisted vagin...

This study was conducted to evaluate the changes in porcine serum albumin (PSA), a major allergen, which occur when raw pork ham is marinated with kiwi or pineapple juice, and/or when the ham is pan broiled at 300℃ for 4 min after marination. In this study, raw pork ham was soaked for 4 h or 8 h in marinades containing commercial marinating sauce only, commercial marinating sauce and 7% kiwi ju...

The influences of glucose concentration, initial medium acidity (pH), and temperature on the growth and ethanol production of Saccharomyces cerevisiae NK28, which was isolated from kiwi fruit, were examined in shake flask cultures. The optimal glucose concentration, initial medium pH, and temperature for ethanol production were 200 g/l, pH 6.0, and 35oC, respectively. Under this growth conditio...

Our study analyses the sensitisation profile to kiwi allergens in patients suffering from atopic dermatitis with use of ALEX2 Allergy Explorer test. The molecular components latex, banana, avocado, pollen, seeds within latex fruit syndrome was also evaluated. Altogether 100 were examined. incidence clinical reaction observed 15% patients; a combination Act d 1, 2 and 10 gave diagnostic sensitiv...

This paper deals with key functionalities of the KiWi annotation component and shows how it enables seamless combination of informal and formal knowledge and transformation of the former to the latter. It demonstrates how the advanced KiWi features, such as nested content items, reasoning and information extraction, can be used together to make rich semantic annotation easy and useful.

The population growth of Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli was measured under four different management regimes: unmanaged, predator trapping, predator poisoning, and Bank of New Zealand Operation Nest Egg (BNZONE) — the removal of eggs for artificial incubation and return of resultant subadults to the wild. Life table analysis revealed that high adult mortality (7.3% per annum), caused mainly by dom...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Among fruits, kiwi is one of the richest in vitamins and polyphenols and has strong anti-oxidant effects. We aimed to analyze the relationship between the consumption of kiwi and plasma lipid values, fibrinogen, and insulin resistance in adults within the context of a normal diet and physical-activity. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Participants (N = 1469), who were free o...