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Respiratory infections regulated blood cells IFN-β-PD-L1 pathway in pediatric asthma.

Julia KöllePatricia HaagTytti VuorinenKiefer AlexanderManfred RauhTheodor ZimmermannNikolaos G PapadopoulosSusetta Finotto
Published in: Immunity, inflammation and disease (2020)
These data indicate that, in the presence of infection in the airways of preschool children, worse asthma is associated with induced PD-L1 mRNA expression in blood cells. Further, type I IFN, IFN-β, a cytokine that is involved in the clearance of infections, was found to be associated with a better lung function in asthmatic children. These data suggest that improving peripheral blood IFN type I expression in PBMCs in pediatric asthma could improve disease exacerbation due to suppressing PD-L1 expression in blood cells.
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