Experiment 637581
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Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Vitis vinifera (VITACEAE) |
| Citation | VASWANI,SK: CHANG,BW: CAREY,RN: HAMILTON,RG:. (1999). ADULT ONSET GRAPE HYPERSENSITIVITY CAUSING LIFE THREATENING ANAPHYLAXIS.. 83(1) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A 28-YEAR-OLD WOMAN EXPERINECED GENERALIZED UTICARIA, FACIAL/OROPHARYNGEAL ANGIOEDEMA, AND DIZZINESS AFTER EATING A BUNCH OF WHITE GRAPES. SHE WAS TREATED IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM FOR ANAPHYLAXIS. PREVIOUSLY, SHE HAD EXPERIENCED TWO SIMILAR EPISODES AFTER EATING WHITE GRAPES. THE GRAPE PRICK SKIN TESTS WERE STRONGLY POSITIVE FORMING A PSEUDOPOD TYPE REACTION. THE TOTAL SERUM IGE WAS 1918 NG/ML/ THE GRAPE-SPECIFIC SERUM IGE WAS WEAKLY POSITIVE BY THE MODIFIED RAST AND NEGATIVE IN THE PHARMACIA-UPJOHN CAP SYSTEM. RESULTS INDICATE THAT HYPERSENSITIVITY TO A COMMONLY CONSUMED FRUIT SUCH AS GRAPES CAN DEVELOP LATE IN LIFE CAUSING A NEAR-FATAL ANAPHYLAXIS. |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | FIBER |
| Gender | FEMALE |