Study of the Month, April, 2009:

 

Davenas E, Beauvais F, Amara J, Oberbaum M, Robinzon B, Miadonna A, Tedeschi A, Pomeranz B, Fortner P, Belon P, Sainte-Laudy J, Poitevin  B, Benveniste J. Human basophil degranulation triggered by very dilute antiserum against IgE. Nature. 1988 Jun 30;333(6176):816-8.

 

This study triggered a firestorm of controversy in the scientific community.

To find this article, we will do a PubMed search. Unfortunately, the full article is not freely available – you must either pay for the article or try and access the article through a university or library.  To get to PubMed:

  1. Go to the any search engine and enter “pubmed” and choose “PubMed Home”.
  2. In the top box enter appropriate keywords such as “Davenas”, “Basophil”, “nature”.
  3. Scroll down to choose the appropriate study. If you do not have full access, you can read the abstract and then purchase the article if you wish.
If you have any questions, please contact me, David, at homeonet@incamresearch.ca

3 Apr 09