IFNG and asthma: To investigate whether BCG- or rBCG-hIL-18-pulsed DCs can polarize T cells towards the Th1 profile, despite the presence of Der p 1, in patients with asthma, we measured the Th1-type cytokine (IFN-γ) levels in the supernatants collected from DC-autologous naive and DC-autologous memory T cell 96-h cocultures (Figure 3).