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Fall 2012
Eggs are an economical source of nutrient rich food containing essential nutrients but are also one of the eight most common foods causing allergy today. Eggs are present in a wide variety of foods including sauces, bread and pasta. A novel method for the production of hypoallergenic egg...
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Evidence for the essentiality of arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acid in the postnatal maternal and infant diet for the development of the infant's immune system early in life
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Richard, Caroline, Lewis, Erin D., Field, Catherine J.
Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA), especially the balance between arachidonic (AA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids are known to have important immunomodulatory roles during the postnatal period when the immune system is rapidly developing. AA and DHA are required in infant formula...
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Pre and postnatal maternal distress and infant gut immunity in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort
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Introduction: Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) plays a critical role in gut mucosal immunity and is a marker of immune maturation in early life. Delayed IgA production is associated with increased risk of allergic diseases. Animal models of stressful events before birth and during infancy show...
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection biases the immune response in favor of Th2: the role of Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase
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Infants that develop severe bronchiolitis due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are at increased risk of developing asthma later in life. To begin my studies in vitro, purified RSV stock was needed. My first study established the critical steps in RSV purification to determine a procedure that...
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Spring 2014
CRTh2 (chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule expressed on Th2 cells) is a marker for Th2 cells and activation through CRTh2 stimulates expression of cytokines that are important for allergic responses such as IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13. We have observed CRTh2+ T cells express the IL-25 receptor...
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Fall 2014
Epidemiological studies correlate vitamin D deficiency with asthma severity. Calcitriol modulates receptor and cytokine expression from various leukocytes in an anti-inflammatory manner. Despite eosinophil activity during mucosal inflammation, knowledge on the direct effect of calcitriol on this...