Infectious nickel tolerance: a reciprocal interplay of tolerogenic APCs and T suppressor cells that is driven by immunization.

Previously, we reported that tolerance to nickel, induced by oral administration of Ni(2+) ions, can be adoptively transferred to naive mice with only 10(2) splenic T cells. Here we show that 10(2) T cell-depleted spleen cells (i.e.

Complementary therapy for atopic eczema and other allergic skin diseases.

Atopic eczema is one of the most common chronic inflammatory skin diseases, with a prevalence of at least 10% in children and 0.5-1% in adults. The disease shows a drastically increasing tendency.