Publications by authors named "H Smits"
Background: SARS-CoV-2 has been associated with a higher proportion of asymptomatic infections and lower mortality in sub-Saharan Africa than high-income countries. However, there is currently a lack of data on cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in people living in Africa compared with people in high-income regions of the world. We aimed to assess geographical variation in peripheral and mucosal immune responses.
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- Preterm-born babies, especially those born a little early, often get more sick with lung infections and wheezing than babies born on time.
- It's really important to help these babies stay healthy to improve their lives now and reduce problems like asthma later.
- The review talks about ways to help these babies by looking at things like how their immune system develops, what they eat, and their living environment, and suggests strategies like using good bacteria and helping their immune system work better.
Background: This study aimed to determine the prognostic value of radiological magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) variables and dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)-MRI for local control (LC), disease control (DC), and overall survival (OS) in laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer patients after radiotherapy.
Methods: 320 patients treated with radiotherapy were retrospectively included. Pretreatment MRIs were evaluated for the following anatomical tumor characteristics: cartilage invasion, extralaryngeal spread, and involvement of the anterior commissure, pre-epiglottic space, and paralaryngeal space.
Chronic infection with Schistosoma mansoni parasites is associated with reduced allergic sensitization in humans, while schistosome eggs protects against allergic airway inflammation (AAI) in mice. One of the main secretory/excretory molecules from schistosome eggs is the glycosylated T2-RNAse Omega-1 (ω1). We hypothesized that ω1 induces protection against AAI during infection.
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