Current understanding of asthma pathogenesis and biomarkers

N Habib, MA Pasha, DD Tang - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Asthma is a heterogeneous lung disease with variable phenotypes (clinical presentations)
and distinctive endotypes (mechanisms). Over the last decade, considerable efforts have …

Asthma epidemiology and risk factors

J Stern, J Pier, AA Litonjua - Seminars in immunopathology, 2020 - Springer
Asthma is a clinical syndrome that affects all age groups. Asthma prevalence worldwide has
seen a rapid increase in the latter part of the last century. Recent data has shown that …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals cell type–specific molecular and genetic associations to lupus

RK Perez, MG Gordon, M Subramaniam, MC Kim… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease. Knowledge
of circulating immune cell types and states associated with SLE remains incomplete. We …

Maturation of the gut microbiome during the first year of life contributes to the protective farm effect on childhood asthma

M Depner, DH Taft, PV Kirjavainen, KM Kalanetra… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Growing up on a farm is associated with an asthma-protective effect, but the mechanisms
underlying this effect are largely unknown. In the Protection against Allergy: Study in Rural …

[HTML][HTML] GSDMB is increased in IBD and regulates epithelial restitution/repair independent of pyroptosis

N Rana, G Privitera, HC Kondolf, K Bulek, S Lechuga… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Gasdermins are a family of structurally related proteins originally described for their role in
pyroptosis. Gasdermin B (GSDMB) is currently the least studied, and while its association …

Airway remodeling in asthma

KP Hough, ML Curtiss, TJ Blain, RM Liu, J Trevor… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways that may result from exposure to allergens
or other environmental irritants, resulting in bronchoconstriction, wheezing, and shortness of …

Gasdermins: effectors of pyroptosis

SB Kovacs, EA Miao - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
Pyroptosis is a form of lytic programmed cell death initiated by inflammasomes, which detect
cytosolic contamination or perturbation. This drives activation of caspase-1 or caspase …

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of allergic asthma

ZI Komlósi, W van de Veen, N Kovács, G Szűcs… - Molecular aspects of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways, which affects more than 350 million people
worldwide. It is the most common chronic disease in children, affecting at least 30 million …

A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis

A Conesa, P Madrigal, S Tarazona, D Gomez-Cabrero… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has a wide variety of applications, but no single
analysis pipeline can be used in all cases. We review all of the major steps in RNA-seq data …

Genetics and epigenetics in asthma

P Ntontsi, A Photiades, E Zervas, G Xanthou… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Asthma is one of the most common respiratory disease that affects both children and adults
worldwide, with diverse phenotypes and underlying pathogenetic mechanisms poorly …