Comment: The following study helps support the HEIRS and others' hypothesis that MCS and other environmental illnesses are a "loss of tolerance" which involves impaired Treg production.
"PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25 – Vitamin D may be an effective therapy to treat and even prevent allergy to a common mold that can cause severe complications for patients with cystic fibrosis and asthma, according to researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Louisiana State University School of Medicine."
Read more: Vitamin D may treat and prevent allergic reaction to mold in cystic fibrosis patients:
For further reading: Tregs, loss of tolerance, FoxP3
**********You can also search the HEIRS Citation database for related citations.
Duan, W., So, T., and Croft, M. (2008). Antagonism of airway tolerance by endotoxin/lipopolysaccharide through promoting ox40l and suppressing antigen-specific foxp3+ t regulatory cells. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 181(12):8650-8659. http://www.citeulike.org/user/HEIRS/article/3752381
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