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Tag: flagellin

Bacterial protein in house dust spurs asthma according to NIH study

By David Coil   Posted in News
Posted on November 13, 2012November 17, 2012

Just a short post here about an interesting paper that came out a few weeks ago (not open access, here’s the press release).   This group showed that the bacterial protein flagellin can exacerbate allergic reactions to house dust (at least in mice).  What’s interesting to me is that flagellin itself is not an allergen, it …

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