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.

• Cysteinyl leukotrienes are the most potent bronchoconstrictors known. Leukotriene inhibitors should be reserved for patients who cannot or will not use ICSs. Leukotriene inhibitors are alternatives to LABAs as add-on therapy to ICSs, but their efficacy is less than ICS/LABA http://bit.ly/1PPnXO
  
  
• Helping the Helpers: differentiation of T follicular helper cells is dependent on dendritic cell-derived interleukin-12 http://bit.ly/3sMVM
  
  
• IL-33 is a member of the IL-1 family and is involved in polarization of T cells toward a T helper 2 (Th2) cell phenotype. Caspase-mediated proteolysis may act as a switch to dampen the proinflammatory properties of IL-33 http://bit.ly/VnEF8
  
  
• RAG-1–RAG-2 complex nucleates a specialized subnuclear compartment - the 'V(D)J recombination factory' http://bit.ly/wBPgz
  
  
• Jawless fish, the 'sister' group of jawed vertebrates, use leucine-rich repeat–containing proteins as antigen receptors http://bit.ly/2zrdg

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