Biodiversity intervention enhances immune regulation and health-associated commensal microbiota among daycare children. As the incidence of immune-mediated diseases has increased rapidly in developed societies, there is an unmet need for...
Significant disparities in allergy prevalence and microbiota between the young people in Finnish and Russian Karelia Background Atopic allergy has been more common among schoolchildren in Finland, as compared to...
Innate immunity and asthma risk in Amish and Hutterite farm children. BACKGROUND The Amish and Hutterites are U.S. agricultural populations whose lifestyles are remarkably similar in many respects but whose...
Land cover of early-life environment modulates the risk of type 1 diabetes. OBJECTIVE Environmental microbial exposures have been implicated to protect against immune-mediated diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Our...
Microbiome and type 1 diabetes. The steep increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D), in the Western world after World War II, cannot be explained solely by genetic...
Urban environment predisposes dogs and their owners to allergic symptoms. Our companion-animals, dogs, suffer increasingly from non-communicable diseases, analogous to those common in humans, such as allergic manifestations. In humans,...
A biodiversity hypothesis. Biodiversity hypothesis states that contact with natural environments enriches the human microbiome, promotes immune balance and protects from allergy and inflammatory disorders. We are protected by two...
The rich and the poor: environmental biodiversity protecting from allergy Purpose of review It has been proposed that biodiversity loss leads to reduced interaction between environmental and human microbiotas. This,...
Immunological resilience and biodiversity for prevention of allergic diseases and asthma. Increase of allergic conditions has occurred at the same pace with the Great Acceleration, which stands for the rapid...
Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated. Rapidly declining biodiversity may be a contributing factor to another global megatrend—the rapidly increasing prevalence of allergies and other chronic inflammatory diseases...