Is ascaris lumbricoides-induced interleukin-10 associated with atopy in schoolchildren in a rural area of the tropics?
The results of this study do not support the notion that IL-10 plays a role in modulating atopy in children living in a tropical area where intestinal helminth infections are endemic.
These data suggest that the maintenance of mucosal architecture throughout the process of aging is due to either a hyperproliferative state or an exaggerated apoptosis with a consequent cellular immaturity, which may impair the absorptive function observed in stress conditions.