...Noriyuki Yanagida; Sakura Sato; Nobuyuki Maruyama; Kyohei Takahashi; Ken-ichi Nagakura; Kiyotake Ogura; Tomoyuki Asaumi; Motohiro Ebisawa Background: Buckwheat (BW) is the source of a life-threatening allergen. Fag e 3-specific serum IgE (sIgE) is more useful than BW-sIgE for diagnosis; however...

...Noriyuki Yanagida; Sakura Sato; Kyohei Takahashi; Ken-ichi Nagakura; Kiyotake Ogura; Tomoyuki Asaumi; Motohiro Ebisawa Background: Buckwheat (BW) is a common cause of life-threatening allergy in Asia. Few have examined oral food challenges (OFCs) using BW. We here describe the OFC outcomes...

...Eva-Maria Varga; Dagmar Kollmann; Maximilian Zach; Barbara Bohle Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is known to cause severe anaphylactic reactions in adult individuals. However, type I allergy to buckwheat is rarely seen in children. We report on a 7-year-old boy who developed a grade III...

...Rie Satoh; Satoru Koyano; Kayoko Takagi; Rika Nakamura; Reiko Teshima Background: The buckwheat 16-kDa protein (BWp16), as reported in our previous study, is a major allergen in buckwheat; however, the IgE-binding epitopes of BWp16 have not as yet been identified. Methods: We screened candidates...

...Satoru Koyano; Kayoko Takagi; Reiko Teshima; Jun-ichi Sawada Background: Buckwheat is a common food in Japan, Korea and other countries. A candidate major buckwheat allergen, a 16-kDa protein (BWp16), was previously characterized as a pepsin-resistant protein associated with immediate-type...

...Kazuko Tanaka; Kenji Matsumoto; Akira Akasawa; Toshiharu Nakajima; Takeshi Nagasu; Yoji Iikura; Hirohisa Saito Background: Buckwheat is becoming popular in many countries as a health food and the incidence of buckwheat allergy is increasing in Asia. The ingestion of small amounts sometimes provokes...

...Mark Akira Yoshimasu; Jie Wei Zhang; Shigeru Hayakawa; Yoshinori Mine Background: Buckwheat allergies are not common, however, it is considered to be a very potent allergen. Ingestion of small amounts has been found to produce anaphylactic reactions, particularly in children. Identification...