Monday, February 1, 2010

Immune cells that prevent development of asthma identified

ScienceDaily (2009-11-30) --According to the great paradigms of immunology, asthma, an allergic disease of the respiratory system, should always develop upon exposure to airborne antigens that are constantly being inhaled. However, the fact that 94 % of the Western population does not develop the disease suggests that as yet undefined mechanisms protect the respiratory tract from developing an allergic response.

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