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CYTOMETRY PART B-CLINICAL CYTOMETRY
Volume 52B, Issue 1, Pages 13-19Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.10012
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basophils; Hymenoptera venom; honeybee; common wasp; Vespula spp. (yellow jacket); Polistes spp. (paper wasp); allergy; histamine release; CD63; flow cytometry
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Background: Flow cytometry (FCM) has been proposed for specific allergy in vitro testing. We investigated its biological significance for allergy to Hymenoptera venoms and compared it with the routinely performed basophil histamine release test (HRT). Methods: Blood samples from 26 allergic and 8 nonallergic donors were incubated with venom at serial concentrations. Basophils were analyzed with anti-CD45-PE-Cyanin 5, Anti-IgE-FITC, and Anti-CD63-Phycoerythrine. HRT was measured by radioimmunoassay. Results: FCM was as convenient as HRT for measuring basophil reactivity in at least 87% of allergic and 75% of nonallergic subjects. CD63 outer expression was specifically induced in 91% of releaser subjects (86% on HRT) and in 1 of 10 tests in nonallergic donors, or one of six tests (16% on HRT) in allergic patients tested with an irrelevant allergen. Both methods were concordant in 85.7% of the tests. The three discordant patients had low-grade reactions and borderline biological responses on FCM (n = 2) or HRT (n = 1). Conclusions: The dynamic, physiologic significance of CD63, the dose-response curve, and dependency on ethylene-diaminetetra acetic acid suggested that both tests reflect the same mechanism. (C) 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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