Atopy

Increasing our knowledge base of asthma.

Estimating glucose requirements of an activated immune system in growing pigs.

Activated immune cells become obligate glucose utilizers, and a large i.v. lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ...

Finding Asthma: Building a Foundation for Care and Discovery.

Application of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Asthma Ascertainment. An Automated Chart Review.

RATIONALE: Difficulty of asthma ascertainment and its associated methodologic heterogeneity have cre...

Elevated Serum Interleukin-8 Level as a Preferable Biomarker for Identifying Uncontrolled Asthma and Glucocorticosteroid Responsiveness.

BACKGROUND: To explore the clinical significance of serum interleukin-8 (IL-8) level as a biomarker ...

[Influence of Fe O nanoparticles on the rhological properties of simulated asthma airway mucus].

The properties of mucus in a person with asthma can alter with disease process so that it may lead t...

Effects of Inhalable Microparticles of Seonpyejeongcheon-Tang in an Asthma Mouse Model: - Effects of Microparticles of SJT.

OBJECTIVES: Allergic asthma generally presents with symptoms of wheezing, coughing, breathlessness, ...

[A Case of Eosinophilic Enteritis Needed to Distinguish from a Tumor of the Small Intestine].

A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia 6 months ago and was under follow-up at our h...

A mobile platform for automated screening of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma each represent a large proportion of the glo...

Effect of Borago Officinalis Extract on Moderate Persistent Asthma: A Phase two Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Borago officinalis and its derivatives are used in folk medicine to treat asthma because...

The effect of Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) on \textit{ex vivo} activation of human leukocytes.

INTRODUCTION: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has been widely used to treat various conditions, in...

Nasal irrigation with Nasir® in children: a preliminary experience on nasal cytology.

Allergic rhinitis (AR) and upper airway respiratory infections are frequent in children, and both ha...

Systemic Immediate Hypersensitive Reactions after Treatment with Sweet Bee Venom: A Case Report.

OBJECTIVES: A previous study showed that bee venom (BV) could cause anaphylaxis or other hypersensit...

Distinct Transcriptional and Anti-Mycobacterial Profiles of Peripheral Blood Monocytes Dependent on the Ratio of Monocytes: Lymphocytes.

The ratio of monocytes and lymphocytes (ML ratio) in peripheral blood is associated with tuberculosi...

[Analysis of Cases with Elevated Blood (1->3)-β-D-glucan in Relation to an Infection Marker, Neutrophil CD64 Expression].

(1->3)-β-D-glucan (BDG) is a constituent of the fungal cell wall and its blood level is known as a m...

Automatic Wheezing Detection Based on Signal Processing of Spectrogram and Back-Propagation Neural Network.

Wheezing is a common clinical symptom in patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases such as asthma...

[Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome].

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common lung diseases characterized by ch...

Is Gelsolin a Biomarker for Aseptic Loosening After Total Knee Arthroplasty?

Gelsolin (GSN) has been implicated in inflammatory reactions in asthmatic patients and may be a mark...