Dr. Dale T Umetsu MD, PHD
Allergist and Immunologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Allergy/Immunology
300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115Rating
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Dr. Dale Umetsu practices Pediatric Allergy Medicine in Boston, MA. A pediatric allergist/immunologist finds and treats allergies and immune system problems that child patients suffer from. Dr. Umetsu treats the reactions caused by pet dander, pollen, dust, mold spores, insect stings, food, and medications; those reactions include asthma, hay fever, hives, eczema, or a very severe and unusual reaction called anaphylaxis.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The kinetics of change in cytokine production by CD4 T cells during conventional allergen immunotherapy.
- Intranasal exposure to protein antigen induces immunological tolerance mediated by functionally disabled CD4+ T cells.
- Interleukin-10: The missing link in asthma regulation?
- The safety and efficacy of ALLERVAX CAT in cat allergic patients.
- Vaccination with heat-killed Listeria as adjuvant reverses established allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation: role of CD8+ T cells and IL-18.
- CD4(+) T helper cells engineered to produce latent TGF-beta1 reverse allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity and inflammation.
- When engineered to produce latent TGF-beta1, antigen specific T cells down regulate Th1 cell-mediated autoimmune and Th2 cell-mediated allergic inflammatory processes.
- Absence of muscarinic cholinergic airway responses in mice deficient in the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase PDE4D.
- Mechanisms preventing allergen-induced airways hyperreactivity: role of tolerance and immune deviation.
- Respiratory infection with influenza A virus interferes with the induction of tolerance to aeroallergens.
- Allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity is diminished in CD81-deficient mice.
- Immunotherapy of asthma and allergic diseases.
- Allergen immunotherapy: novel approaches in the management of allergic diseases and asthma.
- Vaccination with allergen-IL-18 fusion DNA protects against, and reverses established, airway hyperreactivity in a murine asthma model.
- Human alveolar macrophages induce functional inactivation in antigen-specific CD4 T cells.
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