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Allergy prevention starts before conception: maternofetal transfer of tolerance protects against the development of asthma.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Nov 2008
Polte Tobias, Hennig Christian, Hansen Gesine
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BACKGROUND: Allergy prevention must start early because environmental exposures during pregnancy and young life determine disease risk. OBJECTIVE: In this study we analyzed whether prevention can start even earlier before conception by transfer of immunologic tolerance from the mother to the offspring preventing the offspring from having asthma. METHODS: BALB/c mice were orally tolerized with ovalbumin before...
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