The role of defensins in virus-induced asthma.

abstract：:Although the smoking prevalence in the United States continues to decline since the Surgeon General's first report in 1964, certain vulnerable populations continue to be disproportionately affected by the adverse consequences of tobacco smoke exposure. Children are particularly vulnerable to exposure and are likely to...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ciaccio CE,Gentile D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased prevalence of atopic diseases, atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, and asthma has been described as an epidemic. New approaches in the fight against allergic diseases are called for, the target being the persistence of the atopic T helper 2-skewed immune responder pattern beyond infancy. Atopic dermati...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Isolauri E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS) encompasses a wide variety of etiologies. To date, a unifying pathophysiologic mechanism remains elusive. Eosinophilia is frequently, but not exclusively, caused by immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated hypersensitivity and is dominated by the associated cytokine milieu of Th2 inflam...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Sok JC,Ferguson BJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is an acquired disease characterized by chronic eosinophilic airway inflammation with underlying dysregulation of arachidonic acid metabolism. The purpose of this paper is to review the latest developments in our understanding of the underlying pathophysiology including t...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Woessner KM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goals of this review are to help the reader to recognize the common symptoms and signs of exercise-induced asthma and the common objective tests used to confirm or rule out the diagnosis and to understand that different forms and intensities of exercise have different asthmagenicity. The review also aims to h...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Carver TW Jr

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review is focused on the existing evidence for circadian control of innate and adaptive immune responses to provide a framework for evaluating the contributions of diurnal rhythms to control of infections and pathogenesis of disease. RECENT FINDINGS:Circadian rhythms driven by cell-autonomous bi...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Waggoner SN

更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral food challenges are the gold-standard diagnostic investigation for diagnosing food allergy. They allow a subject to consume an age-appropriate portion of allergenic food under surveillance to assess whether a reproducible immune-mediated adverse response is demonstrated. The specific design of food challenge must...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Feeney M,Marrs T,Lack G,Du Toit G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most prevalent symptomatic primary immune deficiency. With widespread use of immunoglobulin replacement therapy, non-infectious complications, such as autoimmunity, chronic intestinal inflammation, and lung disease, have replaced infections as the major cause of morbidity...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Maglione PJ,Cols M,Cunningham-Rundles C

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal provocation test (NPT) could be more extensively used in the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis by practicing physicians. However, the procedure has not been standardized, and has mainly been utilized for scientific purposes in the US. This review illustrates a wide variety of techniques and approaches to dosing...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Litvyakova LI,Baraniuk JN

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is an inflammatory disorder affecting the nose and paranasal sinuses. Although bacteria have long been implicated as pathogens in most forms of CRS, fungi may be responsible for some forms. Several recent studies demonstrated that, under optimal conditions, fungi can be identified in the n...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ebbens FA,Fokkens WJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although eustachian tube dysfunction and bacterial infection have been shown to cause otitis media with effusion (OME), other etiologies are possible. One of the most common medical conditions in children is obesity, which can have effects throughout the body. Little is known, however, about the relationship between o...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Lee SK,Yeo SG

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health-related quality of life (HRQL) has become an emerging focus of interest in food allergy. Food allergy is a disease characterized by low mortality and symptoms which only occur during an allergic reaction. However, food-allergic patients continuously need to be alert when eating in order to prevent potentially s...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： van der Velde JL,Dubois AE,Flokstra-de Blok BM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have traditionally been viewed as distinct clinical entities. Recently, however, much attention has been focused on patients with overlapping features of both asthma and COPD: those with asthma COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS). Although no universal definition criter...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Bujarski S,Parulekar AD,Sharafkhaneh A,Hanania NA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) refers to acute airflow obstruction that is triggered by a period of physical exertion. EIB occurs mainly in individuals with other features of asthma but is especially prominent in a subset of asthmatics with pronounced indirect airway hyperresponsiveness. Leukotrienes (LTs)...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Hallstrand TS,Henderson WR Jr

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fungi are capable of causing IgE-mediated hypersensitivity in humans. However, the most predominant fungi implicated in allergy belong to the genera Aspergillus, Alternaria, Cladosporium, and Penicillium. Pure and relevant allergens are essential for diagnosis as well as for understanding the immunopathogenesis o...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Kurup VP

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural oils include mineral oil with emollient, occlusive, and humectant properties and the plant-derived essential, coconut, and other vegetable oils, composed of triglycerides that microbiota lipases hydrolyze into glycerin, a potent humectant, and fatty acids (FAs) with varying physico-chemical properties. Unsatur...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Verallo-Rowell VM,Katalbas SS,Pangasinan JP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review aims to update the information available on the prevalence, clinical picture, diagnostic methods, and treatment of urticarias induced by external physical stimuli. RECENT FINDINGS:Physical urticarias are present in up to 5% of the general population, and in 10 to 50% of patients with chro...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Sánchez-Borges M,González-Aveledo L,Caballero-Fonseca F,Capriles-Hulett A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain and itch sensations are induced by depolarization of distinct populations of unmyelinated type C, and possibly other, neurons. Both sets of neurons and sensations serve critical protective mechanisms that maintain the integrity and patency of the upper airways. When noxious or pruritic stimuli are applied on the ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Tai CF,Baraniuk JN

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of immune disorders is growing parallel with practices associated with westernization, such as dietary changes, increased use of antibiotics, or elevated rates of Cesarean section. These practices can significantly impact the gut microbiota, the collection of bacteria residing in the human gastrointestin...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Shen N,Clemente JC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that causes significant morbidity in affected individuals. It is characterized by dysregulated immune responses that consist of an increased systemic Th2 response and a combination of Th2 and Th1 responses in the skin lesions. In this article, we review factors ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ong PY,Leung DY

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses can be compartmentalized into innate versus adaptive components. This relatively recent dichotomy positioned the innate immune system at the interface between the host and the external environment and provided a new conceptual framework with which to view allergic diseases, including asthma. Airway ep...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Georas SN,Rezaee F,Lerner L,Beck L

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of distinct CD4(+) T-cell populations in regulating the nature and strength of immune responses is well documented and in the past has principally focused on the cross-regulation of T-helper type 1 (Th1) and Th2 cells, which secrete interferon-gamma and interleukin-4, respectively. However, the identification...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： McGuirk P,Higgins SC,Mills KH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal mucosa is a complex tissue that interacts with its environment and effects local and systemic changes. Receptors in the nose receive signals from stimuli, and respond locally through afferent, nociceptive, type C neurons to elicit nasonasal reflex responses mediated via cholinergic neurons. This efferent lim...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Baraniuk JN,Kim D

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut-associated lymphoid tissue is the specialized arm of the immune system responsible for distinguishing innocuous dietary nutrients, self-proteins, and gut flora from pathogens. Oral tolerance is the active immunologic response to innocuous ingested antigens that leads to a systemic tolerance for that antigen. T...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Stanley S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiologic functions of histamine have been recognized for more than 100 years, yet new roles are still being uncovered. Most importantly, a newly discovered receptor of the amine has helped refine our understanding of histamine. This new receptor, the histamine H4 receptor (H4R), has a higher affinity for histam...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Huang JF,Thurmond RL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of a T cell through T cell receptor (TCR) is fundamental to adaptive immune responses. The lymphocyte specific kinase (LCK) plays a central role in the initiation of signaling from the TCR. TCR activates LCK through the adaptor protein uncoordinated 119 (UNC119). A mutation of human UNC119 impairs LCK a...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Gorska MM,Alam R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cutaneous microbiome has been investigated broadly in recent years and some traditional perspectives are beginning to change. A diverse microbiome exists on human skin and has a potential to influence pathogenic microbes and modulate the course of skin disorders, e.g. atopic dermatitis. In addition to the known dy...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Fyhrquist N,Salava A,Auvinen P,Lauerma A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous inflammatory condition with a multifactorial basis. Infectious triggers of CRS have been proposed, but demonstration remains elusive. Evolving research suggests that abnormal host mucosal immune responses, rather than specific pathogens themselves, may underlie the chron...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Lane AP

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are major protagonists of immune-mediated adverse drug eruptions. Immunohistochemical observation as well as isolation and functional characterization of T cells infiltrating the affected tissues provided new insights into the pathomechanisms of the diverse clinical manifestations of drug hypersensitivity, and...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Cavani A,De Pità O

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is an episodic respiratory syndrome caused by several pathogenic processes. This recurrent syndrome is associated with an accelerated decline in lung function and increase in airway obstruction over time. The reduced lung function is a consequence of tissue restructuring of all the components of the airway wall...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Bossé Y,Paré PD,Seow CY

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00