The same way allergen injections can reduce an allergic response. It's one type of antibody and focusing a response will remove the antibody from circulation and allergy elsewhere.

But this is just mice, any claims on human allergy is bullshit.

[–] SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, an overly heightened immune system is how you get allergies and auto-immune diseases.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm working on getting (ok, it's just arrived, and I need to head off to class) and digesting the paper. I suspect that this is because of the more effective application/regulation of macrophages, CD4+ and CD8+ cells, such that they aren't over responsive. To keep with the metaphor above, the TRMs are in a dormant state, waiting to be activated, but in this case the activation is much more specific, so it's not going 'off the rails' for every Hombre with a Black Hat, but rather every Hombre with a Black Hat, leather hat band, and a white feather, sort of. I've not read beyond the Abstract.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

so it's not going 'off the rails' for every Hombre with a Black Hat, but rather every Hombre with a Black Hat, leather hat band, and a white feather, sort of. I've not read beyond the Abstract.

So each season it would be tuned to "what was in fashion" for the expected coming cold/flu season?

That sounds awesome.

Spray up the nose for a chance to miss the worst bug of he season? I would take those odds. (And yes, I'm aware of and partake of the bargain that is existing annual flu shot, haha.)