Cyclooxygenases and the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyposis.

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:There has been an explosion in the number of published systematic reviews on chronic rhinosinusitis in the last decade. RECENT FINDINGS:While the aim of these reviews in facilitating evidence-based practice is laudable, poor quality reviews may contain significant bias that can mislead a non-discerni...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Walker A,Hopkins C

更新日期：2018-02-16 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：: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 one of the most common chronic disease conditions in the United States. Currently, diagnosis is based initially on clinical symptomatology and signs, but the final diagnosis of CRS should be confirmed by objective measures. CT of the paranasal sinuses is the most commonly obtained test ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Bhattacharyya N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The prevalence of food allergy is increasing. At the current time, there are no approved treatments for food allergy. Major limitations of immunotherapy are long treatment periods (months or years), frequent clinic visits, high costs, increased risk of adverse events during treatment, and lack of dura...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Long A,Borro M,Sampath V,Chinthrajah RS

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past four decades, many patients have been reported to have deficiencies of one or more subclasses of immunoglobulin G (IgG), despite normal total IgG serum concentrations. However, except for those with extremely low or absent IgG2 concentrations and an inability to produce antibodies to polysaccharide antig...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Buckley RH

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy (SCIT) is beneficial for the treatment of allergic rhinitis, asthma, and in preventing stinging insect anaphylaxis, but is not without risks. Four retrospective surveillance surveys and one on-going national prospective study have attempted to characterize the incidence and risk fac...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Kannan JA,Epstein TG

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Allergic eye disease is associated with IgE-mediated conjunctival inflammation leading to signs of immediate hypersensitivity, including redness, itching, and tearing. Pathologic studies using conjunctival mast cells demonstrate that these cells, when sensitized with IgE antibody and exposed to environmental allergens...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Stahl JL,Cook EB,Barney NP,Graziano FM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best possible allergen immunotherapy clinical outcomes require the provision of high quality and safe allergen immunotherapy extract preparations. Evolving national guidelines and regulatory bodies have devoted special attention to the safe compounding of sterile products, including allergen extracts. It is incumb...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Nelson MR,Petersen MM,Wolverton WO,Mikita CP

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Otitis media is one of the most common childhood infections leading to doctor's visits and a leading cause of antibiotic prescriptions in children. Twin and family studies have confirmed that the predisposition of developing a bacterial middle ear infection is genetically determined. Several case-control studies have ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Hafrén L,Kentala E,Einarsdottir E,Kere J,Mattila PS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orbital myositis is an inflammatory process that primarily involves the extraocular muscles and most commonly affects young adults in the third decade of life, with a female predilection. Clinical characteristics of orbital myositis include orbital and periorbital pain, ocular movement impairment, diplopia, proptosis,...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Costa RM,Dumitrascu OM,Gordon LK

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：:Patients with HIV infection exhibit a wide range of skin pathology, including bacterial, fungal, and viral infections, skin tumors, inflammatory and eczematous eruptions, and drug rashes. HIV-infected adults commonly develop a condition that strongly resembles atopic dermatitis and is sometimes called "atopic-like der...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Rudikoff D

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expanding knowledge about an interaction of the bacterial colonization with pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and the human immune system leads to speculation on potential effects on health and disease. Recent advances in sequencing technologies and new bioinformatic possibilities now allow investigating the micr...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Bendiks M,Kopp MV

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonspecific lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) are important allergens in fruits, vegetables, nuts, pollen, and latex. Despite their wide distribution throughout the plant kingdom, their clinical relevance is largely confined to the Mediterranean area. As they can sensitize via the gastrointestinal tract, LPTs are conside...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Egger M,Hauser M,Mari A,Ferreira F,Gadermaier G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical urticarias are a heterogeneous subgroup of chronic urticarias in which wheals can be reproducibly induced by different specific physical stimuli such as cold, heat, pressure, vibration, or sunlight. Physical urticarias comprise up to 25 % of chronic urticarias and occur more frequently in young adults. Sy...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Abajian M,Młynek A,Maurer M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review aims to provide an update of recent advances in the epidemiology, clinical features and diagnosis, and management of food-induced anaphylaxis (FIA). RECENT FINDINGS:Food allergy prevalence and FIA rates continue to rise, but FIA fatalities are stable. Basophil and mast cell activation tes...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Parrish CP,Kim H

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide screens for asthma and atopy susceptibility loci have been completed in six population samples. Despite the extensive clinical heterogeneity associated with these phenotypes, 20 chromosomal regions show evidence of linkage (P < 0.01) in three or more population samples. Thus, this survey suggests that at l...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Ober C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, significant scientific progress has influenced clinical allergy practice. The biological standardization of extracts was followed by the massive identification and characterization of new allergens and their progressive use as diagnostic tools including allergen micro arrays that facilitate ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Barber D,Díaz-Perales A,Villalba M,Chivato T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Focusing on the strict relationship between house dust mites and crustaceans from the allergenic point of view. RECENT FINDINGS:The well-known tropomyosin was considered for years as the cross-reacting allergen between shrimp and house dust mites. In the last few years, several allergens not only in ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Asero R,Pravettoni V,Scala E,Villalta D

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns about cross-allergenicity between sulfonamide antibiotics and nonantibiotic sulfonamide-containing drugs continue to complicate pharmacotherapy. Several elegant investigations have demonstrated unequivocal lack of interaction between the sulfonamide group and either cellular or humoral immunity. The immunolog...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Brackett CC

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Anaphylaxis is a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction characterized by a syndrome of dermatologic and systemic signs and symptoms, at times including cardiovascular collapse from distributive shock. Although it is recognized that the incidence of anaphylaxis is increasing, the extent of its prevalence, both ...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Matasar MJ,Neugut AI

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The role of the eosinophil in the pathophysiology of allergy and asthma has been the focus of intense interest during the last two decades. While the presence of eosinophils in humans with allergy and asthma is well established, the precise role of this cell in humans and in animal models is less clear. However, recen...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Adamko D,Lacy P,Moqbel R

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Told from the viewpoint of rheumatologists, this review tells the story of hydroxychloroquine and its swift ascent to become a household name as a therapeutic strategy against the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. This review describes the history, mechanisms, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic applications, and saf...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Udupa A,Leverenz D,Balevic SJ,Sadun RE,Tarrant TK,Rogers JL

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is an increasingly prevalent disease, particularly in industrialized countries. With modern treatment, many patients can expect good asthma control; however, a significant minority continue to have excessive symptoms. Bronchial thermoplasty is a novel approach to treating asthma in which the hypertrophied airwa...

journal_title：Current allergy and asthma reports

authors： Martin N,Pavord ID

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00