Medications
A new drug promises to lower risks of asthma attack
A recent study shows that a gamechanger drug called Fevipiprant promises to lower patients' risks of suffering an asthma attack and being admitted to a hospital.
Mar 27, 2019
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Immunology
Cytomegalovirus infection broadens spectrum of environmental allergens
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection can convert a harmless, inhaled protein antigen into an allergen, according to a study published March 7 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Rafaela Holtappels from the University ...
Mar 7, 2019
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Immunology
Mechanism for impaired allergic inflammation in infants may explain hygiene hypothesis
The hygiene hypothesis may explain why asthma and other allergic airway diseases have dramatically increased over the past decades in industrialized countries. The hypothesis suggests that decreased exposure to microbial ...
Jan 9, 2019
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Immunology
Exosomes 'swarm' to protect against bacteria inhaled through the nose
Bacteria are present in just about every breath of air we take in. How the airway protects itself from infection from these bacteria has largely remained a mystery—until now. When bacteria are inhaled, exosomes, or tiny ...
Nov 12, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
To better treat COPD, scientists look to tailored approaches for deadly lung disease
Valerie Chang kept waking up breathless in the middle of the night. As a regular swimmer and non-smoker, she figured it was a fluke, a remnant of her childhood asthma, perhaps.
Nov 9, 2018
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Immunology
Pathway to resolve allergic asthma is discovered
A group of Brazilian researchers succeeded in preventing allergic asthma from progressing in experimental models by increasing the amount of a certain protein. This increase, in turn, blocked the CD4+ T lymphocytes responsible ...
Nov 7, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Delivering antibodies via mRNA could prevent RSV infection
Almost every child gets respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes cold-like symptoms. It's usually not a big deal if they're healthy, but every year in the U.S. some 57,000 children under the age of five are hospitalized ...
Nov 6, 2018
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Immunology
Asthma's androgen connection
Women are more prone to developing asthma, particularly more severe types of asthma, compared to men. Studies have shown that the sex hormones, estrogen and testosterone, influence the mechanisms driving airway inflammation ...
Oct 17, 2018
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Immunology
Exposure to farmyard bugs reduces immune overreaction found in childhood asthma
Treating new born mice with farmyard microbes reduces wheezing and inflammation in the airways, by 'taming' their immune systems.
Sep 24, 2018
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Immunology
Obesity alters airway muscle function, increases asthma risk
New research suggests that obesity changes how airway muscles function, increasing the risk of developing asthma. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
Sep 13, 2018
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