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Article: KEY MOLECULAR SIGNALING SWITCH INVOLVED IN ALLERGIC DISEASE IDENTIFIED
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 29, 2006
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Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news release:
A research team has identified a key enzyme responsible for triggering a chain of events that results in allergic reaction, according to new study findings published online this week in Nature Immunology.
The work by researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University, the Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York sets the stage for development of new strategies and target therapies that control allergic disease - the sixth leading cause of chronic disease in the United States.
Allergic diseases such as asthma and hay fever are problematic for about 30 percent of the population in the ...
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