Childhood is a critical period of immune development. During this time, naïve CD4 T cells undergo programmed cell differentiation, mediated by epigenetic changes, in response to external stimuli leading to a baseline homeostatic state that may determine lifelong disease risk. However, the ontogeny of epigenetic signatures associated with CD4 T cell activation during key developmental periods are yet to be described. ...

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Peanut allergy is the the most common cause of life-threatening food-induced anaphylaxis. There is currently no effective long-term treatment. There is a pressing need for definitive treatments that improve the quality of life and prevent fatalities. ...

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This article discusses the relationships between gut colonization & inflammatory noncommunicable diseases, in regards to their treatment and prevention. ...

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We aimed to determine whether regular consumption of egg protein from 4-6 month old reduced the risk of IgE-mediated egg allergy in infants without eczema. ...

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Increased maternal egg ingestion is associated with increased breastmilk ovalbumin, and markers of immune tolerance in infants ...

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Vitamin D deficiency in a predominantly white Caucasian cohort of pregnant women is less prevalent than has been reported in other studies ...

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

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The diagnosis of food allergy (FA) can be challenging because approximately half of food-sensitized patients are asymptomatic. ...

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HealthNuts is a single-centre, multi-wave, population-based longitudinal study designed to assess prevalence, determinants, natural history and allergy... ...

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Debbie Susan Palmer Prescott D SL BSc BND PhD MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP Head, Early Life & Life-Course Health Program; Team Lead, Nutrition in Early Life Honorary Research Fellow debbie.palmer@uwa.edu.au susan.prescott@telethonkids.org.au Head, Early ...

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Debbie Susan Palmer Prescott D SL BSc BND PhD MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP Head, Early Life & Life-Course Health Program; Team Lead, Nutrition in Early Life Honorary Research Fellow debbie.palmer@uwa.edu.au susan.prescott@telethonkids.org.au Head, Early ...

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Showed for the first time that the presence of an egg-derived allergen in breast milk is associated with a reduced risk of egg allergy in children at 2.5 years of age ...

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• 2020
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