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AUTHOR
M. C. Recio
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Extracellular Vesicles From the Helminth Fasciola hepatica Prevent DSS-Induced Acute Ulcerative Colitis in a T-Lymphocyte Independent Mode
2018
The complexity of the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease) has led to the quest of empirically drug therapies, combining immunosuppressant agents, biological therapy and modulators of the microbiota. Helminth parasites have been proposed as an alternative treatment of these diseases based on the hygiene hypothesis, but ethical and medical problems arise. Recent reports have proved the utility of parasite materials, mainly excretory/secretory products as therapeutic agents. The identification of extracellular vesicles on those secreted products opens a new field of investigation, since they exert potent immunomodulating effects. To assess the ef…
Effects of Natural Products on Contact Dermatitis
2005
Some medicinal plants, which are known to produce allergic reactions, are also specifically used as anti- inflammatory agents. Among the more relevant plants, we report species with cinnamaldehyde, cinnamic alcohol, geraniol, hydroxycitronellal, eugenol and isoeugenol are all potential allergens. In addition, fragrances, which are mixtures of small-molecul ar-weight compounds, may induce allergic contact dermatitis due to fragrance-spe cific CD4 + and CD8 + T lymphocytes. Plants from the Asteraceae family used in folk medicine as anti-inflamma tories can cause allergic contact dermatitis because of its content in sesquiterpene lactones, which have been reported as the anti- inflammatory pri…