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ALLERGEN [2 records]

Record 1 2017-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Immunology
  • Environment
OBS

[The mission of AllerGen NCE Inc. is] to catalyze and support discovery, development, networking, capacity building, commercialization and knowledge translation/mobilization that contribute to reducing the morbidity, mortality and socio-economic burden of allergy, asthma and anaphylaxis for the benefit of Canadians and the global community.

Key term(s)
  • AllerGen NCE
  • AllerGen National Center of Expertise Inc.
  • AllerGen National Centre of Expertise
  • AllerGen National Center of Expertise

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Immunologie
  • Environnement
Key term(s)
  • AllerGen NCE
  • AllerGen National Center of Expertise Inc.
  • AllerGen National Centre of Expertise
  • AllerGen National Center of Expertise

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
  • Pollutants
DEF

Any substance that causes an allergy.

Key term(s)
  • allergenic agent

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
  • Agents de pollution
DEF

Substance qui entraîne une réaction allergénique chez certains sujets.

OBS

Les allergènes font partie du groupe des antigènes, substances qui provoquent une réponse du système immunitaire (sécrétions d'anticorps) chez tous les individus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
  • Agentes contaminantes
DEF

Sustancia que, al introducirse en el organismo, lo sensibiliza para la aparición de los fenómenos de la alergia.

OBS

alérgeno: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda que el adjetivo alérgico se aplica a quien padece alergia, mientras que algo alergénico la produce y alérgeno es el sustantivo con el que nos referimos a la sustancia que la provoca. [...] cabe mencionar que la ‘sustancia que produce una reacción alérgica’ es un alérgeno («El polen es un alérgeno»), sustantivo que tiene además un uso adjetivo con un sentido equivalente al de alergénico, según se recoge en el propio Diccionario de términos médicos y en otros de uso como el Vox o el de Seco, Andrés y Ramos. Se recuerda finalmente que, conforme al Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, es preferible el uso de la forma esdrújula alérgeno a la llana alergeno.

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