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Article: OF MICE, PEANUTS: NEW MOUSE MODEL FOR PEANUT ALLERGY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 12, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:
Chicago researchers report the development of a new mouse model for food allergy that mimics symptoms generated during a human allergic reaction to peanuts. The animal model provides a new research tool that will be invaluable in furthering the understanding of the causes of peanut and other food allergies and in finding new ways to treat and prevent their occurrence, according to experts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that funded the research. Peanut allergy is of great public ...