Revisiting age- and sex-dependent serum tryptase reference intervals: Is additional evidence needed to refine current
Yannick Chantran1, Joana Vitte2, Isabelle Momas3
1Health Environmental Risk Assessment Team, MERIT IRD UMR261, Inserm UMR1344, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France; Molecular Platform for the Analysis of cKIT Mutations and Other Gene Defects, ECNM Reference Center, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Centre National de Référence des Mastocytoses, Filière MaRIH, Paris, France; Department of Biological Immunology, Saint-Antoine Hospital, DMU BioGeMH, AP-HP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
|April 1, 2026
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