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Basophil Activation Test for Allergy Diagnosis
Published on: May 31, 2021
[Various aspects of diagnosis of food intolerance]
N V Reshetova1, N V Semenova, A A Ivanova
1Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, RAMS, Russia, 119992, Street, Pogodinskaya 10, Moscow.
Abstract:
In the presence of food antigenes causing food intolerance in patients granulocytes isolated from these patients exhibited altered oxidative metabolism. This phenomenon may be used for diagnostics of food intolerance in vitro.
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