Allergies occur when the immune system treats a harmless foreign protein as an invader. The immune system mounts a full-scale response to the protein. This response involves releasing inflammatory ...

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Patients with asthma who have aspirin sensitivity have greater cysteinyl leukotriene production and greater airway hyperresponsiveness to the effects of inhaled cysteinyl leukotrienes than their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of leukotriene receptor antagonists to antihistamines improved urticaria symptoms. The combination ...

Leukotrienes have been a prime target in asthma and drugs were developed — known as leukotriene modifiers — that block airway inflammation and bronchoconstriction. The drugs that are currently used ...

Systemic mastocytosis is an uncommon and potentially misdiagnosed condition. Its hallmark is the accumulation and abnormal proliferation of mast cells in various tissues. A two-month-old boy was ...

UB biomedical informatics researchers have found that patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia had a 13.5% survival advantage when treated with a combination of leukotriene inhibitors (LTIs) and ...

Cysteinyl leukotrienes are important mediators of airway inflammation, whereas 8-isoprostane is a biomarker of oxidative stress. This study evaluated the distributions of cysteinyl leukotriene and ...

Editor's Note: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first alerted healthcare professionals (HCPs) about a possible association between the use of leukotriene inhibitors and neuropsychiatric ...

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Bats are increasingly accepted as potential reservoirs of many viruses that cause zoonotic disease outbreaks through spillover to other animals and humans. However, our understanding of the factors ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open examined the associations between leukotriene-receptor antagonists (LTRAs) use in pregnancy and neuropsychiatric events (NEs) risk in offspring. Study: ...