A common blood-clotting protein turns out to play a role in allergic asthma. The protein interacts with better-known immune system players already implicated in allergy, providing a missing piece of the biological puzzle underlying such respiratory attacks. The finding exposes a biological chain of events that could offer targets for allergic asthma treatments, researchers say.
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