Natural killer cells are part of the innate immune system. Their role is to detect virus-infected cells and destroy them. When an infection is detected, a small subset of the most effective killer cells is identified and ...
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There is little chance you are actually allergic to vaccines and, if you are, your allergist can give it to you.
Apr 8, 2019
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For children undergoing immunotherapy – a promising treatment for peanut allergies – uncomfortable side effects can induce anxiety, perhaps to the point of skipping doses or dropping treatment entirely. But guiding young ...
Jan 28, 2019
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A new Tel Aviv University study finds that eosinophils—white blood cells that may have played an evolutionary role in combating parasites, but which are today responsible for chronic asthma and modern allergies—may be ...
Jan 22, 2019
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Erika von Mutius studies the impact of environmental factors in early childhood on allergy and asthma risk. She is now planning a large-scale trial of the beneficial role of unprocessed milk, which will involve thousands ...
Dec 10, 2018
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Researchers want food labelling regulations tightened after their study found that some people with allergies had anaphylactic reactions to packaged foods.
Oct 3, 2018
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For a pregnancy to proceed to term, early modulation of the immunologic response is required to induce tolerance to the fetus. Growing evidence suggests that vitamin D deficiency may affect this process and may play a part ...
Jun 20, 2018
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Inflammatory reactions can change the brain's immune cells in the long term—meaning that these cells have an "immunological memory." This memory may influence the progression of neurological disorders that occur later in ...
Apr 11, 2018
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With every infection or vaccination, memory cells form that the body uses to remember the pathogen. This has been known for decades – but the structure of this cellular immunologic memory has previously proven impossible ...
Mar 8, 2018
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New research suggests that parasitic worms could someday help prevent or treat pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The study, published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Gastrointestinal and Liver ...
Mar 2, 2018
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