Interactions between innate and adaptive immunity in asthma pathogenesis: new perspectives from studies on acute exacerbations
Atopic asthma, which is at its highest prevalence during childhood/young adulthood, represents the main focus of this review.
UV exposure and protection against allergic airways disease
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the small and large conducting airway mucosa characterised by Th2 cell immunity.
Identification and Isolation of Rodent Respiratory Tract Dendritic Cells
This chapter describes the preparation of respiratory tract tissue from both mice and rats for the isolation of respiratory tract dendritic cells (RT…
The role of dendritic cells and regulatory T cells in the regulation of allergic asthma
Airways hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is one of the major clinical features of allergic airways disease including allergic asthma