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Twin trials: How studying twins fuels research on allergies and asthma
Scope (blog) For that reason, the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research is seeking both fraternal and identical twins to help examine the increasing incidence of food allergies and asthma around the world. In a recent article, the center profiled … |
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COMMENTARY: Studying RGV asthma rates — Detailed A&M analysis of air …
Monitor Throughout the past two decades, asthma cases have steadily increased as a major pediatric health concern across the United States and in Texas. This is especially true in the Rio Grande Valley, which has the highest asthma-related hospitalization … |
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UH studying best way to treat black kids, young adults with asthma
The Plain Dealer University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is seeking black kids and adults with poorly-controlled asthma to participate in a clinical trial to determine which treatments work best for this racial group, which is disproportionately … |
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The rabbit as a model for studying lung disease and stem cell therapy.
Biomed Res Int. 2013;2013:691830
Authors: Kamaruzaman NA, Kardia E, Kamaldin N’, Latahir AZ, Yahaya BH
Abstract
No single animal model can reproduce all of the human features of both acute and chronic lung diseases. However, the rabbit is a reliable model and clinically relevant facsimile of human disease. The similarities between rabbits and humans in terms of airway anatomy and responses to inflammatory mediators highlight the value of this species in the investigation of lung disease pathophysiology and in the development of therapeutic agents. The inflammatory responses shown by the rabbit model, especially in the case of asthma, are comparable with those that occur in humans. The allergic rabbit model has been used extensively in drug screening tests, and this model and humans appear to be sensitive to similar drugs. In addition, recent studies have shown that the rabbit serves as a good platform for cell delivery for the purpose of stem-cell-based therapy.
PMID: 23653896 [PubMed – in process]
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Studying Asthma Risk factors
Ivanhoe (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Since 1980, asthma in the US has increased by more than 75 percent, and the symptoms can be debilitating. Now a new study shows a number of specific risk factors are associated with an exacerbation-prone phenotype of severe asthma. Risk factors for an exacerbation-prone asthma phenotype |
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Chicago Researchers Studying Vitamin D-Asthma Link
WJBD Online CHICAGO (AP) – Researchers in Chicago want asthma patients for a study on whether vitamin D pills can make inhaled steroids work better. The research may help answer why inhaled steroids alone don't work in some people with asthma. … |
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Wayne State, ACCESS studying asthma-pollution links in Dearborn's heavily …
Greenfield Daily Reporter A Dearborn-based nonprofit social services agency is working with Wayne State University to study asthma in the Detroit's suburb's heavily industrial south end. The Detroit university and the Arab American Center for Community and Economic Social … |
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Smelly science: Alberta researchers studying soiled diapers for clues to …
Montreal Gazette Researchers suspect that giving antibiotics to infants in their first year of life may be the underlying trigger that causes asthma and allergies to develop … |
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