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Pollen proves beneficial for northern lakes

...e and it triggers thoughts of their battle against allergic reactions. However, a University of Alberta researcher has found an important spin-off for this fine yellow dust-like powder. Mark Graham, a PhD student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the U of A, has shown for the first time the ben...

Prevention is the best option: fighting autoimmune diseases

...tory T cell levels in autoimmune, inflammatory and allergic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and eczema, to determine the risk of disease in patients and their families. ...

A sweet solution for Alzheimer's disease?

... own protein, which was probably the origin of the allergic reaction to the vaccine," the researcher said. Another complication with previous attempts to treat Alzheimer's disease has been that some compounds--such as beta secretase inhibitors--cannot enter the brain easily, St George-Hyslop explained. Scyl...

Allergy battle could be won in five years, says scientist

... the body by passing between the cells to cause an allergic response. "The drugs we are developing -- called...at through the protective cell layer and block the allergic reaction before it occurs. "The effect will be like avoiding allergens altogether. Removing carpet...

Airborne mold spores increase kids' risk for multiple allergies

...re to specific airborne fungal spores may increase allergic reactions and others could help reduce them. The...d that, at least in children, some fungi may cause allergic sensitization while other fungal types may actually inhibit the development of allergies," explains ...

Wild vs. lab rodent comparison supports hygiene hypothesis

...could simultaneously increase the tendency to have allergic reactions and the tendency to acquire autoimmune d...ender against parasites and has been implicated in allergic reactions in humans, Parker said. For their experiments, the researchers trapped wild rats in rural...

Researches discover gene critical for protection against septic-shock-induced death

...ases such as cigarette-smoke-induced emphysema and allergic asthma in mice models. Biswal's team found that the deletion of the Nrf2 gene increased the inflammatory response and caused early death in mice subjected to septic peritonitis or endotoxin shock or both. Mice deficient in Nrf2 gene expressed drama...

How nice, brown rice: Study shows rice bran lowers blood pressure in rats

... drugs can also carry side effects: chronic cough, allergic reactions, dizziness, even kidney problems. What if some component of our diet could work in similar fashion, with few or no side effects? Researchers at Tohoku University and Japan’s National Research Institute of Brewing demonstrated that adding r...

A Jekyll and Hyde of cytokines: IL-25 both promotes and limits inflammatory diseases

...omotes immune responses associated with asthma and allergic responses. The findings, which appear the April issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggest that manipulating IL-25 could provide a method to treat a wide variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. "It appears that IL-25 has a Jekyll an...

Aspirin reduces cardiovascular risks in men and women -- but differently

...wn gastrointestinal side effects of aspirin or are allergic to it, meaning that many more serious cardiovascular events could be prevented if aspirin was more widely used, Berger said In his analysis, Berger combined the data from six different randomized clinical trials, which yielded a total of 95,456 pati...

'Nano-keys' bind cell receptors and trigger allergic reactions

...n cells -- such as the release of histamines in an allergic response. How cell membranes control cellular fun...ors) that trigger a desired response or inhibit an allergic reaction and preventing the release of histamines and other inflammatory mediators. In her presenta...

Breaking the mold: Research teams sequence three fungus genomes

...on mold causing infection, A. fumigatus triggers allergic reactions, asthma attacks--and even deadly infections among people with weakened immune systems. Now, in the December 22 issue of the journal Nature , scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and their collaborators report the mold'...

Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores

...ults who have had asthma for many years, and cause allergic sinusitis in patients with allergic tendencies. Constant exposure to fungus in bed could be problematic. It can also get into the lung c...

New factor implicated in allergy and asthma attacks

... downstream event common to lung and other type of allergic inflammations. By contrast, ragweed pollen extract...." These two signals play a vital role in inducing allergic inflammation. These findings suggest that antioxidant substances may be useful in forestalling alle...

Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases

...up mold growth. Some environmental molds can cause allergic reactions. ...

New processing method reduces peanut allergenicity

...tect consumers from a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction," says Jianmei Yu, a researcher on the st... "This finding is good news to individuals who are allergic to peanuts and important not only to the peanut industry but also to the food industry in general, w...

Bleach found to neutralize mold allergens

...cal Immunology, is the first to test the effect on allergic individuals of mold spores treated with common hou...tory conditions, treating mold with bleach lowered allergic reactions to the mold in allergic patients." The need for denaturing or neutralizing mold allerg...

Climate model links higher temperatures to prehistoric extinction

... cells, known to play a central role in asthma and allergic disease, have identified a hormone-like molecule t... released into the tissues and blood, promoting an allergic reaction. Mast cells are believed to be generated by different precursor cells in the bone marrow....

VCU study shows hormone-like molecule kills cells that cause inflammation in allergic disease

... cells, known to play a central role in asthma and allergic disease, have identified a hormone-like molecule t... released into the tissues and blood, promoting an allergic reaction. Mast cells are believed to be generated by different precursor cells in the bone marrow....

Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot

...Hirohito Kita, M.D., and Gail Kephart, Mayo Clinic allergic diseases researchers. David Sherris, M.D., and Eugene Kern, M.D., both former Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat specialists who now work at the University at Buffalo, also participated in the project. The team found that in chronic sinus infection pa...

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