NOUN
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the main protein of the keratohyalin granules
the specific target of the immune response in rheumatoid arthritis is filaggrin
How To Use filaggrin In A Sentence
- In people with filaggrin mutations, foreign substances easily enter the skin and are detected by the immune system. The Sun
- 'Clear link'The study suggests one in five of all peanut allergy sufferers have a Filaggrin defect.
- This produces a protein called filaggrin, mostly found in the outermost skin layers. The Sun
- the specific target of the immune response in rheumatoid arthritis is filaggrin
- What we have now shown is that the Filaggrin defect is there for people who have peanut allergy but who don't have eczema, which shows a clear link between Filaggrin and peanut allergy.
- He added that as Filaggrin defects were found in only 20% of the peanut allergy cases, there was still a lot of work to be done to understand fully the genetic link to the allergy.
- Those with the defect can be three times more likely to suffer peanut allergy than people with normal Filaggrin.