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ISSN (Print): 1381-6128
ISSN (Online): 1873-4286

Immunopathogenesis of Severe Asthma

Author(s): Christopher E. Brightling, Sumit Gupta, Fay Hollins, Amanda Sutcliffe and Yassine Amrani

Volume 17, Issue 7, 2011

Page: [667 - 673] Pages: 7

DOI: 10.2174/138161211795429028

Price: $65

Abstract

Severe asthma is a complex heterogeneous disease with substantial unmet clinical need. Understanding the immunopathogenesis is likely to provide insights into potential novel therapies. To date researchers have focussed primarily at a single scale for example genome, cell or whole organ physiology. In this review we shall summarise the current knowledge of the immunopathogenesis of severe asthma integrated across multiple scales to provide the insights into the structure function relationships required to begin to unravel the complexity of severe asthma.

Keywords: Asthma, eosinophils, mast cels, remodelling, phenotyping, physiology, immunopathogenesis, Lung, biomechanical, Epidermal growth, neutrophils, cytokines, Mesenchymal progenitors, fibrocytes, hyper-responsiveness, sub-phenotypes


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