Correlations between Alder Specific IgE and Alder-related Tree Pollen Specific IgE by RAST Method

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  • Maeda Yuji
    Clinical Center of National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital
  • Ono Emiko
    Clinical Center of National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital
  • Fukutomi Yuma
    Clinical Center of National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital
  • Taniguchi Masami
    Clinical Center of National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital
  • Akiyama Kazuo
    Clinical Center of National Hospital Organization Sagamihara Hospital

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Abstract

Background: Wild birch trees grow in limited areas in Japan and are not a common aero-allergen. However, many patients who do not live in the area show positive birch pollen Radioallergosorbent Test (RAST). Therefore, being sensitized by another tree pollen which is closely related to birch may result in showing a specific IgE antibody to birch. Alder is a one of these trees and in the past it grew widely in Japan. However, there is no available RAST data as to the correlations between alder and alder-related trees.<br> Methods: We measured the alder specific IgE (CAP-RAST, Phadea) in stored sera which was positive in birch RAST (228 samples), beech RAST (36 samples), oak RAST (152 samples) and cedar RAST (411 samples) and examined correlations between the RAST of alder and other trees.<br> Results: The correlation coefficient value of birch was very high (0.971). The other coefficient values of beech and oak were high (0.884 in beech and 0.895 in oak) but were slightly lower than that of the birch. This means that in terms of allergenicities, birch pollen is almost the same as alder and beech and oak are partly different from the alder.<br> Conclusions: The Japanese respond to alder pollen just same as they do to birch pollen in forming specific IgE antibody. In clinical practice, positive alder RAST has the same meaning as positive birch RAST.<br>

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