Airway remodeling heterogeneity in asthma and its relationship to disease outcomes

A Hsieh, N Assadinia, TL Hackett - Frontiers in physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Asthma affects an estimated 262 million people worldwide and caused over 461,000 deaths
in 2019. The disease is characterized by chronic airway inflammation, reversible …

Airway remodelling in asthma: from benchside to clinical practice

C Bergeron, MK Tulic, Q Hamid - Canadian respiratory journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Airway remodelling refers to the structural changes that occur in both large and small
airways relevant to miscellaneous diseases including asthma. In asthma, airway structural …

Remodeling in asthma

C Bergeron, W Al-Ramli, Q Hamid - Proceedings of the American …, 2009 - atsjournals.org
Airway remodeling refers to the structural changes that occur in both the large and the small
airways of miscellaneous diseases, including asthma. In asthma, airway structural changes …

Structural changes in airway diseases: characteristics, mechanisms, consequences, and pharmacologic modulation

C Bergeron, LP Boulet - Chest, 2006 - Elsevier
In airway diseases such as asthma and COPD, specific structural changes may be
observed, very likely secondary to an underlying inflammatory process. Although it is still …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanics of pulmonary airways: linking structure to function through constitutive modeling, biochemistry, and histology

M Eskandari, TM Nordgren, GD O'Connell - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Breathing involves fluid-solid interactions in the lung; however, the lack of experimental data
inhibits combining the mechanics of air flow to airway deformation, challenging the …

Tidal stretches do not modulate responsiveness of intact airways in vitro

AS LaPrad, TL Szabo, B Suki… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Studies on isolated tracheal airway smooth muscle (ASM) strips have shown that
length/force fluctuations, similar to those likely occurring during breathing, will mitigate ASM …

It's not all smooth muscle: non-smooth-muscle elements in control of resistance to airflow

Y Bossé, EP Riesenfeld, PD Paré… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
To achieve gas exchange, inspired air must pass through an intricate and dynamic
tracheobronchial tree. The tree offers resistance to airflow, and increased resistance is the …

Airway narrowing and bronchodilation to deep inspiration in bronchial segments from subjects with and without reported asthma

PB Noble, RL Jones, A Cairncross… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
The present study presents preliminary findings on how structural/functional abnormalities of
the airway wall relate to excessive airway narrowing and reduced bronchodilatory response …

Airway wall remodeling in asthma: from the epithelial layer to the adventitia

Y Bossé, PD Paré, CY Seow - Current allergy and asthma reports, 2008 - Springer
Asthma is an episodic respiratory syndrome caused by several pathogenic processes. This
recurrent syndrome is associated with an accelerated decline in lung function and increase …

Models to study airway smooth muscle contraction in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro: implications in understanding asthma

D Wright, P Sharma, MH Ryu, PA Rissé, M Ngo… - Pulmonary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Asthma is a chronic obstructive airway disease characterised by airway
hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and airway wall remodelling. The effector of airway narrowing …