A 56-year-old man who had suffered from seasonal rhinitis in spring and autumn experienced recurrent generalized urticaria and an oral burning sensation after eating several cooked herbs for 3 months. A skin-prick test showed positive responses to various pollens, celery, Chinese bellflower, and arrowroot. The Chinese bellflower-specific IgE ELISA OD value was 1.547. Oral challenge with unproce...

Hypertension is a condition that occurs when the amount of blood pumped by heart exceeds ability arterial wall can accommodate. One herbal therapies an alternative choice for sufferers consuming celery. Traditional Chinese people have long used celery to lower pressure. Celery (Apium graveolens) one types therapy as pressure-lowering, it has been proven successful in reducing high pressure beca...

BACKGROUND ImmunoCAP ISAC 112, is a commercially available molecular allergy IgE multiplex test. Data on the comparison of this rather novel test with extract-based as well as molecular ImmunoCAP singleplex IgE tests is missing. OBJECTIVE To perform a comparison between the ISAC multiplex IgE assay and the ImmunoCAP singleplex test results. METHODS Serum samples of 101 adults with grass pol...

Background and Aims: Celery mosaic virus (CeMV) is one of the causal agents of viral diseases in celery (Apium graveolens). CeMV is a member of the Potyvirus genus in Potyviridae family. The virus is naturally transmitted by aphids in a non-persistent manner. During growing season 2006-2007 viral disease symptoms were observed in celery fields grown in Tehran Province (Bage daneshkade, Mohamads...