Highlights of 10 years of immunology in Nature Reviews Immunology

Nature Immunology: Clustering for health

Current reviews of allergy and clinical immunology

Knowledge of patterns of pollen cross-reactivity is crucial for diagnostics and especially for formulation of immunotherapy vaccines in times of diminishing availability of pollen extract constituents. As phylogenetic relationships have become better clarified, it becomes apparent that cross-reactivity does reflect taxonomy in the very great majority of cases. Contradictory observations of unex...

Assessment of Immunology Tests for Pregnancy Diagnosis

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Current reviews of allergy and clinical immunology

Allergic rhinitis (AR) and perennial nonallergic rhinitis (PNAR) represent conditions affecting millions of individuals across the world. Although the diagnosis of AR might be presumptively based on the types of symptoms and the history of allergen triggers, confirmation requires documentation of specific IgE reactivity. In contrast, PNAR is a condition with similar symptomatology but in which ...

Current reviews of allergy and clinical immunology

The prevalences of asthma and obesity have increased substantially in recent decades in many countries, leading to speculation that obese persons might be at increased risk of asthma development. In adults cross-sectional, case-control, prospective, and weight-loss studies are in the aggregate consistent with a role for obesity in the pathogenesis of asthma. In children 3 of 4 prospective studi...