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Delayed Asthmatic Response to Allergen Challenge and Cytokines Released by Nonspecifically Stimulated Blood Cells

Table 2

Survey of the single diagnostic parameters.


	Patients	Control subjects
		Bronchial asthma patients			Healthy subjects
		IAR	LAR	DLAR


Positive skin response (i.c.)
Immediate	10	19	5	9	0
Late	2	2	12	9	0
Delayed	12	0	0	0	0
Increased total IgE in serum*	0	9	4	8	0
Increased total IgG in serum***	0	0	10	7	0
Increased IgG sub-classes in serum⁺
IgG₁	0	0	2	1	0
IgG₂	0	0	0	0	0
IgG₃	0	0	4	2	1
IgG₄	0	0	5	2	0
Increased total IgM in serum⁺⁺	0	0	0	0	0
Increased total IgA in serum⁺⁺⁺	0	0	0	0	0

(i.c.): intracutaneous tests; *total IgE in the serum (PRIST): normal value = 500 IU/mL;**positive specific IgE in the serum (RAST) = >0.70 U/mL (= more than class 1); ***total IgG in the serum (single radial immunodiffusion = Mancini technique and ELISA): normal value = <15.0 g/L; ⁺IgG₁ < 5.0 g/L; IgG₂ < 2.6 g/L; IgG₃ < 0.4 g/L; IgG₄ < 0.5 g/L; ⁺⁺IgM = <3.8 g/L (<1.5); ⁺⁺⁺IgA = <4.0 g/L (<3.2).