Plasma kallikrein amidolytic activity in patients with urticaria.
We have studied the plasma kallikrein amidolytic activity in healthy control subjects (inactive), patients with chronic urticaria (active) and patients with acute urticaria (active) from their admission to the emergency room (active) to the time after which their clinical symptomatology had disappeared (inactive). We found statistically significant differences (p < 0.01) in the active groups of urticaria patients. This leads us to believe that kallikrein participates in the development of symptomatology in these patients.
Monteseirín
J
J
Department of Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain.
Bobadilla
P
P
Galindo
P A
PA
Delgado
J
J
Palma
J L
JL
Llamas
E
E
Conde
J
J
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007610:Kallikreins / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D014581:Urticaria / Q000097:blood* / Q000201:enzymology
D007610:Kallikreins