- Journal Club
Breast milk-mediated transfer of an antigen induces tolerance and protection from allergic asthma. Nature Medicine 2008;14:170-173
Epidemiologic data shows negative association between breast-feeding and incidence of allergic diseases among the children. The study seeks explanation of this finding. OVA neblized mother breast-fed the newborn mice and caused newborn mice's inmune tolerance to OVA. OVA was identified in the breast milk by Western blotting. The mechanism was shown to be related to the lowering of antigen-specific T helper type 2 (Th2) with the presence of TGF-beta.
- Seminar
I talked about the appropriate Digital Radiography parameter for pneumoconiosis screening, based on the DR Taskforce for Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labour, Japan. The flat-panel detector DR was approved for the medical judgment of pneumoconiosis according to the Pneumoconiosis Law in Japan on November 2007.
自己紹介
- nsuganuma
- Born in 1968. MD ('93: Okayama Univ), PhD ('98: Okayama Univ). Professor of Environmental Medicine, at Kochi Medical School. Has special interest in medical screening of occupational environmental respiratory diseases using digital radiography and CT. A US NIOSH B reader.