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Preliminary Study on Unreliability of Lymphocyte Stimulating Test for Kampo Medicine
Naoki Mantani, Harumi Matsuda, Eiichi Tahara, Shinya Sakai, Toshiaki Kogure, Hirozo Goto, Naotoshi Shibahara, Toshiaki KITA, Takahiro Shintani, Yutaka Shimada, Takashi Ito, Katsutoshi TERASAWA
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Abstract
We performed a preliminary study of the reliability of the lymphocyte stimulating test (LST) for Kampo medicine. LST for three kinds of Kampo medicines was performed in both a Kampo-administrated group and a non-administrated group. LST for each of the medicines was negative for seven of eight subjects in the non-administrated group, but was negative for four of 11 subjects in the Kampo-administrated group. The LST-positive participants had no allergic state, and some among them were negative in challenge test. This preliminary study suggests that LST for Kampo medicine is likely to be false-positive.
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