Asthma and the microbiome: Defining the critical window in early life

Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Stiemsma, Leah T ^a,b   Turvey, Stuart E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Critical window; Early life; Hygiene hypothesis; Microbiota; Microflora hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CXCL16 CHEMOKINE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 5; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DYSBIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIGENETICS; FOOD ALLERGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; TH2 CELL; WHEEZING;

EID: 85010205989     PISSN: 17101484     EISSN: 17101492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13223-016-0173-6     Document Type: Review

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