An allergic reaction of any kind is a result of the immune system responding to an otherwise harmless allergen as if it were a pathogen. However, sending the right messages to the immune system can ...

Specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the most widely used treatment for allergic diseases that directly targets the T helper 2 (Th2) bias underlying allergy. However, the most widespread clinical ...

While in search of the causes of allergies and asthma, a chance discovery has yielded new clues: researchers led by Dr Marcus Peters have ascertained that the enzyme guanylate cyclase in cells lays ...

Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2013;9(3):211-216. Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that commonly begins in early infancy, runs a course of exacerbations and remissions and is ...

T cells may be broadly classified as either helper T cells (Th cells, CD4+) or cytotoxic T cells (Tc cells, CD8+). In 1986, T.R. Mosmann, R.L. Coffman, and colleagues observed that individual clones ...

In a recent study published in the Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy journal, researchers explored the anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory properties of flavonoids. Chronic inflammation is crucial to the ...