JACI Journal Club

Each month, the Editors of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology will select two JACI articles for discussion. Readers are invited to send in their questions and comments, which will be addressed by the authors. Articles highlighted on this blog are available free of charge from the links in each post.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Restoring health

The rise in non-communicable, inflammatory diseases (NCD), and in particular allergic and atopic illnesses, has begun to redirect the effor...

Early life BMI progression and asthma incidence

Results from an interesting epidemiological investigation based on data from eight birth cohorts collected under the Global Allergy and Ast...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Mechanisms of T cell plasticity

Continuing with the topic of T helper cell “shapeshifting,” Hirahara et al. report on the complexity of environmental determinants and ...

Chameleon T cells

Lloyd and Saglani present us with a new perspective on T cells as major players in asthma genesis this month ( Journal of Allergy and Clinic...

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The B cell encyclopedia of lung disease

Lung disease researchers could be accused of an excessive focus on aberrant T cell mechanisms in studies of most airway diseases. In this m...

A clinical picture of recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis

Dr. Daniel Hamilos [p1263-1264] discusses the importance of microbes (viruses, bacteria and fungi) in chronic rhinosinusitis [CRS] in this...

Friday, March 1, 2013

Phenotypic heterogeneity in COPD and asthma

It has come as small comfort for pulmonary clinicians that the two most prevalent obstructive lung diseases, COPD and asthma, are being ch...

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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Founded in 1929, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) is the official journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI).

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