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Pillows are known to contain significant levels of indoor allergens and endotoxin, that are of importance to house dust mite sensitized asthmatics. Buckwheat pillows are commonly used in Korea. We...
Many allergists are currently focusing on the development of new diagnostic tools, and are attempting to improve both the sensitivity and specificity. A multiple allergen simultaneous test-chemiluminescent assay (MAST-CLA) is...
Oh JW, Kim EY, Koo BS, Lee HB, Lee KS, Kim YS, Han JS
KMID: 1123770
Exp Mol Med.
2004 Oct;36(5):486-492.
The major house-dust mite allergen, Der f 2, stimulates the phospholipase D (PLD) in T lymphocytes from Dermatophagoides farinae specific allergic individuals. PLD activity increased more than two-fold in T...
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is reported to suppress Th2 response and asthmatic reaction. Dendritic cells (DCs), the major antigen-presenting cells, infections with BCG are known to result in inducing various cytokines....