Wednesday, December 12, 2012

FceRI Antibodies - From William Smith

My understanding is that there are still no commercial tests, the area has been difficult for technical reasons and also for reasons of test peformance- poor specificity in immunoassays, poor correlation between immuno and functional assays. Functional assays (BAT and histamine release) remain gold standard but reproducibility is poor and difficult to commercialise.
Regards, William