by Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nurnberg Intranasal rIL-3 application during challenge induces Treg cells. (A) Experimental design for lung ILC2 skewing. (B) After 5 days of in vitro ILC2 differentiation, IL-10 release was measured in the supernatants of ILC2 skewed from the lung of wild-type (WT) asthmatic mice with and without additional rIL-3 treatment during sensitization or...
by Christina Griffiths, Indiana University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology are studying new ways to treat seasonal or intermittent asthma. Their findings were recently published in Science Immunology. “Asthma has no cure and current treatments primarily focus on resolving the symptoms,” said Ben Ulrich, Ph.D.,...
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER A medicine licensed to treat psoriasis worsened symptoms in patients with severe asthma, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, which was led by researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University...
A new study finds vitamin D may be protective among asthmatic obese children living in urban environments with high indoor air pollution. The study out of John Hopkins University School of Medicine, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, was published in The Journal of...
