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Longitudinal relationship of early life immunomodulatory T cell phenotype and function to development of allergic sensitization in an urban cohort.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Mar 2012
McLoughlin R M, Calatroni A, Visness C M, Wallace P K, Cruikshank W W, Tuzova M, Ly N P, Ruiz-Perez B, Kattan M, Bloomberg G R, Lederman H, Gern J E, Gold D R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Immunomodulatory T cells are thought to influence development of allergy and asthma, but early life longitudinal data on their phenotype and function are lacking. OBJECTIVES: As part of the Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma (URECA) study, we investigated the development of immunomodulatory T cell phenotype and function, and characterized their relation to allergic disease progression from birth...
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