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Common human Toll-like receptor 9 polymorphisms and haplotypes: association with atopy and functional relevance.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Sept 2005
Berghöfer B, Frommer T, König I R, Ziegler A, Chakraborty T, Bein G, Hackstein H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is a pattern-recognition receptor that detects unmethylated CpG motifs prevalent in bacterial and viral DNA. TLR9 stimulation is a key event after bacterial infection, triggering innate immunity and T-helper type 1 skewed adaptive immunity. Synthetic CpG-oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODNs) represent a promising and novel class of immune adjuvants for allergy treatment,...
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