The plasma contact system in atopic asthma

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authors

• Lasser, E. C.
• Lang, J. H.
• Curd, J. G.
• Cochrane, Charles
• Lyon, S. G.
• Howard, M. M.
• Hamblin, A. E.
• Revak, S. D.

publication date

• 1983

journal

• Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology  Journal

abstract

• An in vitro test for the rate of appearance of kallikrein in plasma due to contact system activation by dextran sulfate at 0 degree C was applied to plasmas of 19 atopic asthma patients and 19 age- and sex-matched controls without atopy. The average prekallikrein activation rate was markedly higher in the plasmas of the atopic patients. Mean endogenous heparin levels were also elevated.

subject areas

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Asthma
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Dextran Sulfate
• Dextrans
• Factor XII
• Female
• Heparin
• Humans
• Kallikreins
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prekallikrein

Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

• 0091-6749

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0091-6749(83)90056-8

PubMed ID

• 6189880

Additional Document Info

start page

• 83

end page

• 88

volume

• 72

issue

• 1