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There is evidence to suggest an association between prenatal maternal stress and the development of asthma or other atopic diseases in offspring.
In the longest reported follow-up of infants who received aP vaccine at birth, we found a trend to lower PT IgG antibodies post booster compared with receipt...
Population-based birth cohorts on asthma and allergies increasingly provide new insights into the development and natural history of the diseases.
Pregnancy is a time of vulnerability for vitamin D insufficiency, and there is an emerging literature associating low levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D with...
Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have found children with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop asthma.
Epidemiologic associations between viral lower respiratory infections (LRIs) and asthma in later childhood are well known
There is increasing evidence that the functional state of the immune system at birth is predictive of the kinetics of immune maturation in early infancy.
Atopy and asthma are commonly initiated during early life, and there is increasing interest in the development of preventive treatments for at-risk children.
This chapter describes the preparation of respiratory tract tissue from both mice and rats for the isolation of respiratory tract dendritic cells (RTDC).
Anti-viral innate immune responses may be impaired in asthma, although the mechanisms are not well understood.