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ALLERGENS IN THE PARK AND GARDEN FLORA OF SICILY
2017
The ornamental flora of parks and gardens, as we know, generally includes high proportions of exotics. In Italy it arose from Renaissance on and increasingly enriched up to include a large proportion of exotics native to countries under Mediterranean and temperate climates. Similarly the garden flora of Sicily has a large number of mostly Mediterranean and subtropical exotics. Even if very similar on the whole, these floras differ in some floristic, biological and ecological features. Indeed, several succulent families and genera that are rare or missing in Italy are frequent in Sicily, but plants from temperate regions are almost absent in the island. As regards the allergenic patterns ref…
Application of an immunoproteomic approach to detect anti-profilin antibodies in sera of paritaria judaica allergic patients
2011
Pollen from grasses, weeds, and trees constitutes one of the main sources of inhalant allergens frequently associated with seasonal patterns of allergic diseases. Pollen allergens show some analogies in the amino acids sequence which determine immunological similarity and cross reactivity. Parietaria judaica (P.j) pollen represents one of the main sources of allergens in the Mediterranean area and its major allergens have already been identified (Par j 1 and Par j 2). Recently, has been also described a minor allergen, profilin (Par j 3), an allergen present in pollen of trees, grasses and weeds. Allergenic plant profilins constitute a highly conserved family with sequence identities of 70%…
Verde e allergie
2016
La qualità dell’ambiente urbano è sempre più oggetto di attenzione sia da parte degli amministratori che dei cittadini. Il verde, inteso come l’insieme delle diverse tipologie di impianti presenti nelle città, costituisce un fondamentale elemento per misurare la qualità dell’ambiente urbano. Le sue modificazioni storiche, la sua progettazione e manutenzione assumono rilievo importante soprattutto se si considera la presenza di specie allergeniche che possono condizionare la vita di un’importante fetta della popolazione presente. Tra le diverse soluzioni praticabili per ridurre l’esposizione dei pazienti allergici al polline iniziano a diffondersi anche le moderne tecnologie, come app dedica…