(n.) An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.
(n.) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip.
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Mugwort
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(n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
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(1) Samples were taken on 2 rainless mornings at the peak mugwort flowering time.
(2) The sera that did not detect the 15 kD bands in celery failed to react with both the 15 kD mugwort component and the 14 and 16 kD birch components.
(3) RAST investigations on the sera of 27 patients suffering from celery allergy showed specific IgE to mugwort and birch in 15 cases; sensitization to mugwort or birch alone only occurred in 5 and 7 cases, respectively.
(4) Thus 98% of atopic patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis were detected by an allergen panel consisting of timothy, birch and mugwort.
(5) The degree of skin sensitivity to five common allergens (grass, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, mugwort, birch, and Parietaria) was determined by the threshold dilution technique in all the skin test reactors of a random sample of 295 schoolchildren (142 male and 153 female subjects, age range 11 to 14 years), and the frequency distribution of responders at each concentration was analyzed by probit analysis.
(6) The QSPT performed on the same 29 allergic patients established that 17.4 micrograms lyophilised reference mugwort pollen extract per ml had a biological potency of 1 HEP (histamine equivalent by prick test).
(7) Specific serum IgE to spices (determined in 41 patients with positive RAST to celery) up to class 3 were seen especially in patients with celery-mugwort or celery-birch-mugwort association, and concerned various botanical families.
(8) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(9) A crude and a partly purified extract of mugwort pollen were characterized with particular emphasis on the glycoprotein allergen Ag7.
(10) In most sera IgE against various spices was present; all 12 sera contained IgE against mugwort-pollen extract.
(11) The patient suffers from hay fever and bronchial asthma caused by a variety of pollens (grass, olive, and mugwort).
(12) It is concluded that direct RAST titration allergen assay is not adequate for all kinds of allergen preparations and that the Phadebas RAST for mugwort is less sensitive than the RAST for other allergens.
(13) An associated allergy to several spices is quite common, and therefore the term "celery-mugwort-spice-syndrome" has been proposed.
(14) The allergenic potency of different birch, Timothy and mugwort pollen extracts was determined by means of a direct RAST titration allergen assay.
(15) It could be identified 43 antigens of mugwort pollen (Artemisia vulgaris), 31 migrating anodically and 12 cathodically, by means of crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE).
(16) Simultaneous conjunctival and nasal provcation tests, a total of 174 test pairs, were carried out in fifty patients with allergic rhinitis, using serially diluted antigen solutions of birch, Timothy grass and mugwort pollen, as well as cat and dog dander.
(17) By contrast, in the celery-mugwort sensitive patients (n = 6) the celery RASTs with heated celery extracts remained clearly positive and high RAST values to stick celery could be found.
(18) The analysis of allergens and RAST inhibition tests showed us a close relationship of allergens of Chrysanthemum pollens and pollens of mugwort.
(19) In RAST-inhibition experiments with three different sera, a cross-reactivity between mugwort pollen and coriander could be demonstrated.
(20) Measurement of radioactivities in airborne particles, rain water, drinking water, milk, and mugwort are carried out by gamma-ray spectrometry (pure Ge detector; ORTEC GMX-23195).