Elevated egg-specific Th2 cytokine responses were established prior to egg ingestion at 4months and were not significantly altered by introduction of egg ...

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• 2016
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Egg allergy affects almost 1 in 10 Australian infants. Early egg introduction has been associated with a reduced risk in developing egg allergy; however, the immune mechanisms underlying this protection remain unclear. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021

With the emergence of allergic and autoimmune diseases in populations that have started to transit to a western lifestyle, there has been an increasing... ...

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• 2010
• December 2010

Reliance on increasing use of dietary supplementation and fortification (eg, with folate) to compensate for increased consumption of processed foods is also... ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

In this review, we describe both the mechanisms and the therapeutic evidence from preclinical and clinical studies exploring the role of prebiotics in allergy prevention ...

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• 2019
• August 2019

There is now considerable evidence demonstrating that both prenatal and postnatal exposure to particular classes of microbial stimuli can provide beneficial signals during early life immune development, resulting in the protection against future inflammatory disease. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Vitamin D status in early life has been linked to the risk of allergic disease in multiple observational studies. ...

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• 2014
• January 2014

This study is the first to demonstrate an association between greater direct UV light exposures in early infancy with lower incidence of eczema ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

Experimental studies show a substantial contribution of early life environment to obesity risk through epigenetic processes. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Susan Prescott SL MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP Honorary Research Fellow susan.prescott@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research Fellow Susan Prescott is a ...

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