D R Miller, S W Turner, D Spiteri-Cornish, A R Scaife, P J Danielian, G S Devereux, G M Walsh
BACKGROUND: Antenatal factors including maternal diet may predispose to airway disease, possibly by impacting on fetal airway development. OBJECTIVE: This cohort study tested the hypothesis that maternal vitamin D and E status in early pregnancy is associated with airway epithelial cell (AEC) responses in new born infants and examined constitutive and TNFα/IL-1β, house dust mite (HDM) extract or lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated neonatal AEC responses in vitro...
May 2015: Clinical and Experimental Allergy