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Asthma is a chronic obstructive disease of the lower airways. It is characterized by episodic
exacerbations of at least partially reversible airflow limitation, along with bronchial …

This study was designed to examine the inflammatory process in the central and peripheral
airways of surgically resected lungs from asthmatic and nonasthmatic subjects. Lung …

Airway inflammation is believed to stimulate mucus production in asthmatic patients.
Increased mucus secretion is an important clinical symptom and contributes to airway …

Airway-wall remodeling leading to thickening of the bronchial wall in asthma has been
invoked to account for airflow obstruction and increased bronchial reactivity to provocative …

The severity of asthma can be graded from mild intermittent to severe persistent. Airway
inflammation is a feature of persistent asthma. We compared several markers of …

The current study examined whether alterations in glucocorticoid receptor (GR) binding
contribute to poor response to glucocorticoid therapy in asthma. 29 asthma patients with …

Background: The purpose of this study was to characterize the relationship between tissue
cytokine expression and the cellular infiltrate present in chronic hyperplastic sinusitis with …

A hallmark of asthma is mucin overproduction, a condition that contributes to airway
obstruction. The events responsible for mucin overproduction are not known but are thought …

We have studied the actions of helper T lymphocyte-1 and-2 (Th1 and Th2) cells in an acute
model of eosinophilic airway inflammation by infusing chicken ovalbumin-specific (OVA …