Re: Innate immune system targets asthma-linked fungus for destruction

[Guest guest]

WOW, if alternaria does this just think of what mycotoxins can do!

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> Public release date: 2-Sep-2008

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> Innate immune system targets asthma-linked fungus for destruction

> EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC*

> Contact: Barry Whyte

> whyte@...

> 540-231-1767

> Virginia Tech

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> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/vt-iis090208.php

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> Blacksburg, Va. – A new study shows that the innate immune system

of

> humans is capable of killing a fungus linked to airway

inflammation,

> chronic rhinosinusitis and bronchial asthma. Researchers at Mayo

> Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) have

revealed

> that eosinophils, a particular type of white blood cell, exert a

> strong immune response against the environmental fungus Alternaria

> alternata. The groundbreaking findings, which shed light on some of

> the early events involved in the recognition of A. alternata by the

> human immune system, were published recently in the Journal of

> Immunology.*

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