Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• Intestinal antigen presenting cells promote tolerance to dietary antigen via the induction of regulatory T cells. Retinoic acid, a vitamin A metabolite, is a key environmental factor in oral tolerance induction in food allergy http://bit.ly/9GBhH
  
  
• Pre-tx allergen-specific IgE levels do not provide any better prediction of Xolair response to treatment than total IgE http://bit.ly/x5076
  
  
• The most important causative factor for anaphylaxis in mastocytosis are insect stings. Venom immunotherapy should be considered in mastocytosis, patients should be carrying 2 adrenaline auto injectors http://bit.ly/urEF8
  
  
• No association between obesity and asthma control in an urban population with asthma http://bit.ly/SNV5Z
  
  
• Masitinib, a c-kit/PDGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, improves severe corticosteroid-dependent asthma http://bit.ly/MOzvw

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