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BACKGROUND: Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), an adrenal androgen, may regulate Th1/Th2 cytokines.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether DHEA have a preventive effect against the development of asthma, a Th2-associated disease.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Female BALB/c...
BACKGROUND: Both Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) have a suppressive effect on asthma.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of BCG and DHEA combination against the development of asthma. METHOD:...
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) induces potent Th1 responses with the help of interleukin (IL)-10 and IL-12 released from dendritic cells (DCs), and suppresses Th2- associated allergic reactions. However, there are still...
BACKGROUND: Intranasal (i.n.), as compared with subcutaneous (s.c.), BCG vaccination causes a greater suppression of airway eosinophilia. A comprehensive examination is needed to confirm that in various asthma models.
METHODS: BALB/c...
BACKGROUND: Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) increases the production of interferon (IFN)-gamma, and IFN-gamma suppresses the Th2 response.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether DHEA suppresses the in vitro allergen-induced response of airway muscles.
METHOD: Female BALB/c...
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The androgen dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) attenuates allergic inflammatory airway reactions by down-regulating the Th2 response in mice. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether DHEA suppresses Th2...