Elevated antigen-driven IL-9 responses are prominent in peanut allergic humans.

Food allergies, and peanut allergy in particular, are leading causes of anaphylactic fatalities worldwide. The immune mechanisms that underlie food allergy remain ill-defined and controversial, in part because studies in humans typically focus on analysis of a limited number of prototypical Th1/Th2...

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Main Authors: Jungang Xie, Larisa C Lotoski, Rishma Chooniedass, Ruey-Chyi Su, F Estelle R Simons, Joel Liem, Allan B Becker, Jude Uzonna, Kent T HayGlass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23071516/pdf/?tool=EBI