Oral food challenge (OFC) is the gold-standard to diagnose food allergy; however, it is a
labour and resource-intensive procedure with the risk of causing an acute allergic reaction …

The diagnosis of IgE‐mediated food allergy based solely on the clinical history and the
documentation of specific IgE to whole allergen extract or single allergens is often …

The basophil activation test (BAT) is a functional assay that measures the degree of
degranulation following stimulation with allergen or controls by flow cytometry. It correlates …

A wide range of reported evidence in the literature has shown that the quantification of
basophil activation by flow cytometry (basophil activation test, BAT) has proven to be a …

The basophil activation test (BAT) is an ex vivo functional assay that measures by flow
cytometry the degree of basophil degranulation after stimulation with an allergen. In recent …

Abstract Purpose of Review The basophil activation test (BAT) using flow cytometry has
supplanted traditional methods of measuring basophil degranulation using histamine and …

The basophil activation test (BAT) has become a pervasive test for allergic response through
the development of flow cytometry, discovery of activation markers such as CD 63 and …

Basophil activation tests (BATs) can closely monitor, in vitro, a patient's propensity to
develop type I hypersensitivity reactions. Because of their high specificity and sensitivity …

Background: The basophil activation test (BAT) is a widely validated and reliable tool
especially for the diagnosis of hymenoptera venom allergy. Nevertheless, several pitfalls …

Although in their early stages, direct basophil activation tests may prove to be useful in the
clinic. Indirect basophil activation studies are useful when applied to compare functional …