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Maternal work hours in early to middle childhood link to later adolescent diet qualityPrevious studies on maternal work hours and child diet quality have reported conflicting findings possibly due to differences in study design, lack of a...
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T-cell activation genes differentially expressed at birth in CD4+ T-cells from children who develop IgE food allergyTo show underlying mechanisms, we examined differences in T-cell gene expression in samples at birth and at 1 year in children with and without IgE allergy.
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Lifecourse childhood adiposity trajectories associated with adolescent insulin resistanceIn light of the obesity epidemic, we aimed to characterize novel childhood adiposity trajectories from birth to age 14 years and to determine their relation...
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Two newly identified cat allergens: The von Ebner gland protein Fel d 7 and the latherin-like protein Fel d 8Characterization of the complete IgE binding spectrum of cat allergens is important for the development of improved diagnosis and effective immunotherapeutics.
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Interaction between adaptive and innate immune pathways in the pathogenesis of atopic asthma: Operation of a lung/bone marrow axisAtopic asthma is the most common form of asthma, particularly during childhood, and in many cases it persists into adult life.
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Risk factors for bronchial hyperresponsiveness in teenagers differ with sex and atopic statusSex-related differences in bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) have been reported in adolescents, but the mechanisms remain obscure.
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Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in Indigenous and non-Indigenous childrenIn Australia and many other developed countries, acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) is one of the most common reasons for hospitalisation in young...
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Exhaled breath temperature in healthy children is influenced by room temperature and lung volumeExhaled breath temperature (EBT) has been proposed for the non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation
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Method of bacterial killing differentially affects the human innate immune response to Staphylococcus epidermidisIn vitro investigations of human innate immune responses to extracellular bacteria commonly utilise killed preparations in preference to live...
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The -2518bp promoter polymorphism at CCL2/MCP1 influences susceptibility to mucosal but not localizedMucosal leishmaniasis (ML) follows localized cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) caused by Leishmania braziliensis.