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ReviewElectronic physician2017

Common solvents for making extraction of allergenic proteins from plants' pollens for prick tests and related factors: a technical review.

Hassan Mansouritorghabeh, Farahzad Jabbari-Azad, Abdolreza Varasteh, Mojtaba Sankian, Reza Farid-Hosseini

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Review in Electronic physician, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hassan MansouritorghabehPh.D. Student, Allergy Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Farahzad Jabbari-AzadM.D., Associate Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Allergy Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Abdolreza VarastehPh.D., Professor of Medical School, Allergy Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Mojtaba SankianPh.D., Associate Professor of Immunology, Immunology Research Center, Bouali Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Reza Farid-HosseiniM.D., Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Allergy Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Collecting information on influencing factors in developing consistent and high-quality extracts results in accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of type I allergy (IgE mediated). Furthermore, considering that a large number of allergens are currently in practice, any attempt to develop a more effective procedure for preparing extract may be useful. Nowadays, different saline solvents, temperature, incubation time, and PH are being incorporated for preparing allergen extracts. The objective of the current study was to clear and address the commonest of solvent buffers and allied conditions for making extracts of pollens of grasses, trees, and weeds. The literature review was done in Jan 2016 on PubMed and Google Scholar medical search engines without any time limitation. After reading abstracts of 87 articles, finally 37 relevant papers were selected and their full texts were retrieved. In conclusion, 24 full-text papers were recognized appropriate and chosen. The extracted information for papers has been described fully in the text. On the basis of these data, PBS buffer with PH 7.4, temperature of 4 °C and with overnight incubation time, may be the optimized condition in order to have a proper extract for carrying out skin prick tests.

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AllergensPlant ProteinsPollensSkin TestSolvents

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PMID28713519
PMCPMC5498712

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