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Anti-viral innate immune responses may be impaired in asthma, although the mechanisms are not well understood.
This study compared the potency and immunomodulatory effects of measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine given to infants alone or in combination with varicella...
Honorary Emeritus Fellow; Scientific Reviewer - Animal Ethics
Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have found children with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop asthma.
Asthma exacerbations in children are associated with respiratory viral infection and atopy, resulting in systemic immune activation and infiltration of immune cells into the airways. The gene networks driving the immune activation and subsequent migration of immune cells into the airways remains incompletely understood. Cellular and molecular profiling of PBMC was employed on paired samples obtained from atopic asthmatic children during acute virus-associated exacerbations and later during convalescence.
Using prospective data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we investigated vitamin D status and predictors of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin...
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...