Cape Malay Dutch: The missing link between Cape Dutch Pidgin and Afrikaans? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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OBJECTIVES: Although cold exposure is commonly believed to be causally related to acute viral respiratory infections, its effect on the immune system is largely unexplored. In this study, we determined transcript levels of a large panel of immune genes in blood before and after cold exposure. We included both Dutch Europid and Dutch South Asian men to address whether the immune system is differently regulated in the metabolically vulnerable ...