Mice that were free to scratch their itchy ears saw the number of immune cells go up and levels of infection-causing bacteria decline ...

Institute of Quality Standard and Testing Technology for Agro Products, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China ...

Of the four human immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclasses, IgG4 is considered the least inflammatory, in part because it poorly activates the complement system. Regardless, in IgG4 related disease (IgG4-RD) ...

Chemical allergens are low molecular weight molecules able to activate the immune system. To stimulate an immune response, chemical allergens function as haptens binding to carrier proteins. Several ...

Nowadays, most of the aforementioned experiments would be unacceptable from ethical point of view. A still acceptable way of verifying extrapolation from animal experiments to humans are the ...

We report our experience with more than 1,000 patients who underwent patch testing with metals during the past decade at Mayo Clinic. Many metals with high reaction rates (eg, gold, nickel, and ...

Clinical monitoring of cytokines, such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), enables a timely diagnosis and can significantly improve patient prognosis. In this study, we developed a rapid, label-free, ...