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This asthma treatment might eliminate deadly food allergies
A common asthma medication could be the key to preventing life-threatening reactions to food allergies. That's from a multi-year effort by researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois; they identified a previously unknown biological trigger for anaphylaxis, which is most commonly caused by…
Limiting their formation helps reduce asthma symptoms, including inflammation and the constriction of airways in your lungs, which can make it hard to breathe and lead to coughing. A few years ago, researchers at Northwestern began a genetic screen, in which they bred several generations of mice to narrow down the specific genes responsible for various biological differences, like being susceptible to food allergies. Through this process, they found that a gene called DPEP1 was responsible for regulating anaphylaxis, a common allergic reaction that results in a variety of mild to severe symptoms – including a drop in blood pressure that can be fatal.
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