Forest trees are a major source of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). Terpenes
and terpenoids are known as the main BVOCs of forest aerosols. These compounds have …

It is increasingly clear that asthma is a complex disease made up of number of disease
variants with different underlying pathophysiologies. Limited knowledge of the mechanisms …

Background Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood,
with a current prevalence of 6% to 9%, but a prevalence that is increasing at an alarming …

According to the 'hygiene hypothesis', the decreasing incidence of infections in western
countries and more recently in develo** countries is at the origin of the increasing …

Asthma and allergy are common conditions with complex etiologies involving both genetic
and environmental contributions. Recent genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) and …

Asthma is a common disease with a complex risk architecture including both genetic and
environmental factors. We performed a meta-analysis of North American genome-wide …

Asthma is caused by a combination of poorly understood genetic and environmental factors,.
We have systematically mapped the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on …

The spreading epidemic of allergies and asthma has heightened interest in IgE, the central
player in the allergic response. The activity of IgE is associated with a network of proteins; …

Methods This paper arose from an extensive literature review undertaken in develo** the
Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study, a multicentre national …

Asthma is the leading chronic disease among children in most industrialized countries.
However, the evidence base on specific aspects of pediatric asthma, including therapeutic …