Letter to the editorThe carbohydrate galactose-α-1,3-galactose is a major IgE-binding epitope on cat IgA
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Supported by grants from the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association's Research Foundation, the Swedish Cancer and Allergy Foundation, Konsul Th Bergs Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, the Center for Allergy Research, the King Gustaf V 80th Birthday Foundation, the Hesselman Foundation, Karolinska Institutet, and the Stockholm County Council.
Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: H. Grönlund and M. van Hage have received research support from the Swedish Cancer and Allergy Foundation and the Asthma and Allergy Association's Research Foundation. M. van Hage has also received research support from the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation. S. P. Commins has received a fellowship grant from GlaxoSmithKline and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. T. A. E. Platts-Mills has served on the scientific advisory board of Indoor Biotechnologies and has received research support from Phadia and ImClone, Inc. The other author has declared that he has no conflict of interest.