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ReviewSeminars in immunology2023

From Amish farm dust to bacterial lysates: The long and winding road to protection from allergic disease.

Donata Vercelli

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Review in Seminars in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The Role of the Indoor Exposome in Food Allergy Development.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2026
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  9. Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Donata VercelliDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center, The BIO5 Institute, and The Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Electronic address: donata@arizona.edu.

Funding

SOUTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERP30ES006694 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI George S Watts · 1994 to 2026
$36.7M
Recruitment, Data Collection & Sample Management CoreP01AI148104 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI Fernando D Martinez · 2020 to 2026
$19.0M
Tollip inhibits IL-33 signaling during airway influenza virus infectionU19AI125357 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI CHU, HONG W · 2016 to 2025
$14.7M
Role of Gamma delta-17 T Cells in Asthma Protection by Amish Farm Exposure .R21AI144722 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI VERCELLI, DONATA · 2019 to 2020
$443k
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI148104NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI144722NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI125357NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006694
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allergic diseases typically begin in early life and can impose a heavy burden on children and their families. Effective preventive measures are currently unavailable but may be ushered in by studies on the "farm effect", the strong protection from asthma and allergy found in children born and raised on traditional farms. Two decades of epidemiologic and immunologic research have demonstrated that this protection is provided by early and intense exposure to farm-associated microbes that target primarily innate immune pathways. Farm exposure also promotes timely maturation of the gut microbiome, which mediates a proportion of the protection conferred by the farm effect. Current research seeks to identify allergy-protective compounds from traditional farm environments, but standardization and regulation of such substances will likely prove challenging. On the other hand, studies in mouse models show that administration of standardized, pharmacological-grade lysates of human airway bacteria abrogates allergic lung inflammation by acting on multiple innate immune targets, including the airway epithelium/IL-33/ILC2 axis and dendritic cells whose Myd88/Trif-dependent tolerogenic reprogramming is sufficient for asthma protection in adoptive transfer models. To the extent that these bacterial lysates mimic the protective effects of natural exposure to microbe-rich environments, these agents might provide an effective tool for prevention of allergic disease.

Indexed as

AsthmaHypersensitivityAmishAnimalsBacterial LysatesChildDustFarmsHumansImmunity, InnateLymphocytesMiceBacterial LysatesBroncho-VaxomDustAllergic diseaseBacterial lysatesFarm dust extractFarm effectProtection

Identifiers

PMID37210851
PMCPMC10330614

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