Riken Discovers New Mechanism for Controlling Allergic Reactions.Tokyo, Japan, June 23, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Riken recently announced that the Research Center for Allergy and Immunology at Riken Yokohama Institute, in collaboration with Kyoto University Kyoto University (京都大学 Kyōto daigaku , has discovered a mechanism that controls allergic reactions allergic reaction n. A local or generalized reaction of an organism to internal or external contact with a specific allergen to which the organism has been previously sensitized. . The two partners have confirmed that a memory T-cell, a type of immune cell, controls the production of interleukin-4 (IL-4), an in vivo in vivo /in vi·vo/ (ve´vo) [L.] within the living body. in vi·vo adj. Within a living organism. in vivo adv. protein that plays a role in allergic reactions. Further, they have discovered that a memory T-cell transmits a signal called Notch, a kind of molecule, in the cells and increases the production of IL-4. They expect that these findings will contribute to further research on allergy. Details of the research results will be published in the June issue of US scientific magazine Immunity. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion