[HTML][HTML] Selective cleavage of fibrinogen by diverse proteinases initiates innate allergic and antifungal immunity through CD11b

CT Landers, HY Tung, JM Knight, MC Madison… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Proteinases are essential drivers of allergic airway disease and innate antifungal immunity
in part through their ability cleave the clotting factor fibrinogen (FBG) into fibrinogen …

[HTML][HTML] An association between pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex infections and biomarkers of Th2-type inflammation

PE Pfeffer, S Hopkins, I Cropley, DM Lowe… - Respiratory …, 2017 - Springer
Background The rising incidence of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex
(MAI) infection is unexplained but parallels the growing world-wide epidemic of allergic …

Exposure to ephedrine attenuates Th1/Th2 imbalance underlying OVA-induced asthma through airway epithelial cell-derived exosomal lnc-TRPM2-AS

HU Yan, W Mengqing, XIE Jing, J Luojia, D Yi… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although various anti-inflammatory medications, such as ephedrine, are employed to
manage cough-variant asthma, their underlying mechanisms are yet to be fully understood …

[HTML][HTML] An imbalance between proteases and endogenous protease inhibitors in eosinophilic airway disease

PE Pfeffer, CJ Corrigan - … Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care …, 2017 - atsjournals.org
Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS) and asthma were both long thought to be
allergen-driven diseases given the prominent “Th2-type” inflammation in the majority of …

Wpływ środowiska wiejskiego na rozwój astmy i alergii u dzieci

P Fuss, K Bal-Gierańczyk, J Jerzyńska… - Alergologia Polska-Polish …, 2017 - Elsevier
Children who grow up on dairy farms rarely develop asthma or allergies. Researchers
suspect a key reason is that the kids breathe in air full of lipopolysaccharides, molecules …