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ArticleAllergy, asthma & immunology research2021

Elevated MRGPRX2 Levels Related to Disease Severity in Patients With Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria.

Thi Bich Tra Cao, Hyun Young Cha, Eun Mi Yang, Young Min Ye

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Article in Allergy, asthma & immunology research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thi Bich Tra CaoDepartment of Biomedical Science, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4459-6486
Hyun Young ChaDepartment of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8453-7347
Eun Mi YangDepartment of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-3513
Young Min YeDepartment of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea. ye9007@ajou.ac.kr.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7517-1715
Ajou University · KR

Funding

Korea Health Industry Development Institute HI16C0992National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2018R1A2B6006199
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mas-related G-protein coupled receptor-X2 (MRGPRX2), a receptor on mast cells, basophils, and eosinophils associated with immunoglobulin E (IgE)-independent degranulation, has been reported to be highly expressed on cutaneous mast cells in patients with severe chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). We sought to investigate whether MRGPRX2 levels in the sera from CSU patients differ from those in healthy control subjects and to evaluate the clinical utility of MRGPRX2 levels in CSU patients. Severe CSU was defined as urticaria activity score over 7 days (UAS7) ≥ 28. Serum samples from 116 (73 severe and 43 non-severe) CSU patients and 50 healthy subjects were screened for MRGPRX2 using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Serum MRGPRX2 levels were significantly higher in patients with severe CSU (median [interquartile range], 16.5 [10.8-24.8]) than in healthy controls (11.7 [6.5-21.2],

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Chronic urticariaDisease severityMRGPRX2

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PMCPMC7984951
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