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Suppression of the asthmatic phenotype by ultraviolet B-induced, antigen-specific regulatory cells.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Sept 2007
McGlade J P, Gorman S, Zosky G R, Larcombe A N, Sly P D, Finlay-Jones J J, Turner D J, Hart P H
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BACKGROUND: Over recent decades, there has been a significant global increase in the prevalence of asthma, an inflammatory disease of the respiratory system. While ultraviolet radiation (UV) has been used successfully in the treatment of inflammatory conditions such as psoriasis, studies of UV-induced regulation of allergic respiratory responses have been rare, and have not analysed in vivo measurements of airway...
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