Effect of Pru p 3 on dendritic cell maturation and T-lymphocyte proliferation in peach allergic patients.

BACKGROUND: Pru p 3 is the major peach allergen and the most frequent cause of food allergy in adults in the Mediterranean area. Although its allergenicity is well characterized, its ability to generate a T-cell response is not completely known. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of Pru p 3 allergen on dendritic cell (DC) maturation and specific T-cell response (T(H)1/T(H)2) in peach allergic patients. METHODS: Peach allergic patients (n = 11) and tolerant controls (n = 14) were included in the study. Monocyte-derived DC maturation after incubation with Pru p 3 was evaluated by the increase of maturational markers (CD80, CD86, and CD83) by flow cytometry. Lymphocyte proliferation was evaluated by coculturing monocyte-derived DCs and 5,6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate N-succinimidyl ester-stained lymphocytes with different concentrations of Pru p 3 (25, 10, and 1 ?g/mL) by flow cytometry and cytokine production. RESULTS: Pru p 3 induced a significant increase in the CD80, CD86, and CD83 expression on stimulated DCs from patients compared with controls. The lymphocyte proliferative response after Pru p 3 stimulation was also significantly higher along with an increase in interleukin 8 in patients compared with tolerant controls. CONCLUSION: Pru p 3 allergen induces changes in DC maturational status mainly in peach allergic patients. An increase in lymphocyte proliferative response accompanied with a different cytokine pattern was also observed compared with healthy controls.

Is the performance of ImmunoCAP ISAC 112 sufficient to diagnose peach and apple allergies?

Food allergies constitute a public health issue, with a reported overall estimated prevalence of 6% in Europe1 and Rosacea as the main allergenic fruits among adults.2 The commercial microarray ImmunoCAP ISAC 112 (Thermofisher, Uppsala, Sweden) is a semiquantitative and reproducible in vitro diagnostic tool used for the determination of specific IgE (sIgE).3 However, its panel of allergens does not have the best accuracy when it comes to determining fruit allergies in the Mediterranean area: the inclusion of the thaumatinlike protein (TLP) Pru p 2 or the apple lipid transfer protein (LTP) Mal d 3 has been proposed to improve the diagnosis of peach4 and apple5 allergies, respectively, in the Mediterranean basin. We sought to determine the usefulness of a component-resolved microarray for the diagnosis of peach and apple allergies in the Mediterranean area.

Multifuncionalidad rural y nueva ruralidad: la experiencia europea y la potencialidad de Colombia

Esta publicación se enmarca dentro del proyecto de investigación Multifuncionalidad rural y desarrollo local: realidades y mitos. La experiencia europea y la potencialidad de Colombia (A/017108/08), financiado por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación del Gobierno de España (Boletín Oficial del Estado, n.º 6, de 7 de enero de 2009), dentro de su Programa de Cooperación Interuniversitaria e Investigación Científica entre España e Iberoamérica, y cuya realización tuvo lugar durante el año 2009.

Downscaled land surface temperatures obtained by a particle smoothing approach, with links to NetCDF files

This dataset contains continuous time series of land surface temperature (LST) at spatial resolution of 300m around the 12 experimental sites of the PAGE21 project (grant agreement number 282700, funded by the EC seventh Framework Program theme FP7-ENV-2011). This dataset was produced from hourly LST time series at 25km scale, retrieved from SSM/I data (André et al., 2015, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.028) and downscaled to 300m using a dynamic model and a particle smoothing approach. This methodology is based on two main assumptions. First, LST spatial variability is mostly explained by land cover and soil hydric state. Second, LST is unique for a land cover class within the low resolution pixel. Given these hypotheses, this variable can be estimated using a land cover map and a physically based land surface model constrained with observations using a data assimilation process. This methodology described in Mechri et al. (2014, doi:10.1002/2013JD020354) was applied to the ORCHIDEE land surface model (Krinner et al., 2005, doi:10.1029/2003GB002199) to estimate prior values of each land cover class provided by the ESA CCI-Land Cover product (Bontemps et al., 2013) at 300m resolution . The assimilation process (particle smoother) consists in simulating ensemble of LST time series for each land cover class and for a large number of parameter sets. For each parameter set, the resulting temperatures are aggregated considering the grid fraction of each land cover and compared to the coarse observations. Miniminizing the distance between the aggregated model solutions and the observations allow us to select the simulated LST and the corresponding parameter sets which fit the observations most closely. The retained parameter sets are then duplicated and randomly perturbed before simulating the next time window. At the end, the most likely LST of each land cover class are estimated and used to reconstruct LST maps at 300m resolution using ESA CCI-Land Cover. The resulting temperature maps on which ice pixels were masked, are provided at daily time step during the nine-year analysis period (2000-2009).

Amaury de Bène, étude sur son panthéisme formel.

At head of title: Autour du decret de 1210.

Standardization of control point realization.

"C00-1018-1206."

Parua naturalia Alberti Magni.

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Mariale Alberti Magni in eua[n]gelium super : missus est Gabriel angelus.

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Albertus Magnus De secretis mulierum. Item De virtutibus herbarum lapidum et animalium.

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Diui Albertimagni [sic] ratispon?sis episcopi ordinis fratrum predicatorum Postillatio in Apocalypsim.

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Ciencia de la vida ó Discurso Phisiológico sobre la doctrina Browniana en que se exponen clara, concisa y sencillamente las causas que promovieron ... nuestra existencia /

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Historia de las persecuciones políticas y religiosas ocurridas en Europa desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros dias : galeria política filosófica y humanitaria, imparcial y concienzudamente escrita /

Contiene: T.I (XIX, 944 p., [13] h. de lam.) -- T.II ( 846 p., [12] h. de lam.) -- T.III (1017 p., [12] h. de lam.) -- T.IV (982 p., [12] h. de lam.) -- T.V (1206 p., [12] h. de lam.) -- T.VI (1104 p., [12] h. de lam.)

La Corte Divina, ó Palacio celestial /

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