Published in Journal of Chemical Ecology
The roots of ragweed Ambrosia trifida exude chemical compounds that have insecticidal activities. This paper reports a survey conducted in a soybean field infested with ragweed to determine if the ragweed affected the populations of plant parasitic nematodes. There was a strong indication that the ragweed decreased populations of plant parasitic ne...
Published in Aerobiologia
Ragweed pollen, which is a major cause of allergic rhinitis in North America and during the last decades, also in parts of the European continent, has not been regarded as a risk in Sweden, since occurrences of Ambrosia have been rare and with two exceptions, ephemeral. During the last four years, however, long-distance transported pollen has been ...
Published in Aerobiologia
This study evaluates the contribution of ragweed tothe development of allergic manifestations in a groupof outpatients and the atmospheric pollenconcentration trend in the city of Turin (Italy) fromJanuary 1996 to December 1997. We examined 5680 subjects affected byrhinoconjunctivitis and/or bronchial asthma duringspring and summer or by perennial ...
Published in Aerobiologia
Presence of pollen in the atmosphere was determined inTartu in 1989–1997, in Kuressaare in 1996–1997 and inŠiauliai in 1997. Ragweed airpollen was found in latesummer in three years. The distribution, abundance andflowering of local ragweed plants were estimated. Itappeared that the number of local sources did notexceed twenty per country per year....
Published in Aerobiologia
Ragweed pollen have been monitored since 1976 inVienna. Since 1984, the outdoor patients of theallergy department of the ear-nose-and-throatUniversity Clinic underwent both Skin Prick Test andRAST/CAP test with a standard series of commoninhalant allergens, ragweed (Ambrosia elatiorL.) included. Both the ragweed counts and the number of positiveRAS...
Published in Aerobiologia
Ragweed (Ambrosia spp.) is awell-recognised cause of fall allergic rhinitisand seasonal asthma in the Northern Hemispherecountries of United States and Canada. InAustralia the appearance of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) was first recordedduring the 1930s in Queensland, ragweed hayfeverwas noted in 1959 and ragweed dermatitisdocumented in 1963. ...
Published in Aerobiologia
During the last years, a well documented expansion ofragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L., Ambrosia trifida L.) over the Mediterranean andtemperate Europe has been in progress. The currentdistribution of ragweed plants in the Czech Republicis summarized and the ragweed pollen concentration asmonitored by 12 pollen stations in the country isdiscussed...
Published in Aerobiologia
Major weather parameters have long been known to alter airborne pollen and spore concentrations. The following study was conducted to study the effect of three of these parameters on airborne ragweed pollen concentrations.During the ragweed (RW) season for the years 1997 and 1998, 10 minute pollen collections were taken at least every 4 hours using...
Published in Advances in Therapy
To evaluate nedocromil sodium 2% ophthalmic solution for the treatment of sea-sonal allergic conjunctivitis, 24 golfers with documented ragweed-pollen allergy instilled eyedrops twice daily for 4 days prior to golf-course intervention and 15 minutes before playing a round of golf during peak ragweed season. Ocular symptoms were scored at baseline (...
Published in Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
PurposeTo investigate whether treatment with artificial tears inhibits the development of experimental immune-mediated blepharoconjunctivitis (EC).MethodsBrown Norway rats were immunized with ovalbumin (OVA) or ragweed (RW) emulsified in complete Freund’s adjuvant. Fourteen days after immunization, the rats were challenged with the same antigen (Ag...
