It was always thought that olfactory receptors’ sole bodily function was to smell, and could only be found inside a nose. But now a new study has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue.
Asthma caused by adult exposure to cockroach detritus is blocked in mice that were vaccinated as newborns with a particular bacteria, Enterobacter that expresses alpha-1,3-glucan molecules on its surface.
New research paves way for developing new treatments for asthma. Researchers have described their discovery as a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding the life-threatening condition.
A new immunotherapy technique has been developed that nearly eliminates the allergic response to peanut and egg white proteins in food-allergic mice, reducing the anaphylactic response by up to 90 per cent with only one treatment.
Scientists have found which molecules of the house dust mites are initially targeted by the immune system of children developing, even years later, allergic rhinitis and asthma. The discovery will open up new avenues not only to novel and more precise therapies, but...
It’s known that adverse childhood experiences carry over into adult life, but a new study is focusing on the effect of these experiences in the childhood years.
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