Lesson from the farm environment

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-163

  Lluis, Anna ^a   Schaub, Bianca ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

atopy; exposure; farming; innate; microbial

Indexed keywords

ARABINOGALACTAN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; AGRICULTURE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANIMAL FOOD; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COLOSTRUM; DIGESTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; EUROTIUM; FLUID INTAKE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GRASS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MILK; NONHUMAN; PASTEURIZATION; PENICILLIUM; POLARIZATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TH1 CELL; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GALACTANS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MICE; MILK; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE;

EID: 84858160118     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e32835109a8     Document Type: Review

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