Regulation and function of interleukin-36 cytokines in homeostasis and pathological conditions

C Gabay, JE Towne - Journal of Leucocyte Biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract IL-36α, IL-36β, and IL-36γ are members of the IL-1 family of cytokines that signal
through a common receptor composed of IL-36R and IL-1R/AcP to activate NF-κB and …

Asthma and COPD: basic mechanisms and clinical management

PJ Barnes, JM Drazen, SI Rennard, NC Thomson - 2009 - books.google.com
The Second Edition of Asthma and COPD: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management
continues to provide a unique and authoritative comparison of asthma and COPD. Written …

Genome-wide genetic association of complex traits in heterogeneous stock mice

W Valdar, LC Solberg, D Gauguier, S Burnett… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Difficulties in fine-mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) are a major impediment to progress
in the molecular dissection of complex traits in mice. Here we show that genome-wide high …

CD4+CD25+ T cells protect against experimentally induced asthma and alter pulmonary dendritic cell phenotype and function

IP Lewkowich, NS Herman, KW Schleifer… - The Journal of …, 2005 - rupress.org
The role of natural CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T (T reg) cells in the control of allergic asthma
remains poorly understood. We explore the impact of T reg cell depletion on the allergic …

Positional cloning of a novel gene influencing asthma from chromosome 2q14

M Allen, A Heinzmann, E Noguchi, G Abecasis… - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
Asthma is a common disease in children and young adults. Four separate reports have
linked asthma and related phenotypes to an ill-defined interval between 2q14 and 2q32 …

Protease-activated receptor 2 mediates eosinophil infiltration and hyperreactivity in allergic inflammation of the airway

F Schmidlin, S Amadesi, K Dabbagh… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.aai.org
Trypsin and mast cell tryptase can signal to epithelial cells, myocytes, and nerve fibers of the
respiratory tract by cleaving proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR2). Since tryptase inhibitors …

Hazardous air pollutants and asthma.

GD Leikauf - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2002 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Asthma has a high prevalence in the United States, and persons with asthma may be at
added risk from the adverse effects of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Complex mixtures …

Mouse model of airway remodeling: strain differences

K Shinagawa, M Kojima - American journal of respiratory and critical …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
We found that continuous eosinophilic inflammation after repeated antigen instillation into
the nose was observed only in A/J mice, not in three other strains. Histologic analysis of …

A genome-wide association study on African-ancestry populations for asthma

RA Mathias, AV Grant, N Rafaels, T Hand, L Gao… - Journal of allergy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Asthma is a complex disease characterized by striking ethnic disparities
not explained entirely by environmental, social, cultural, or economic factors. Of the limited …

In silico mapping of complex disease-related traits in mice

A Grupe, S Germer, J Usuka, D Aud, JK Belknap… - Science, 2001 - science.org
Experimental murine genetic models of complex human disease show great potential for
understanding human disease pathogenesis. To reduce the time required for analysis of …