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House Dust Mite and Cat Dander Extract Induce Asthma-Like Histopathology with an Increase of Mucosal Mast Cells in a Guinea Pig Model

Journal of Immunology Research, 2023
Background. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with structural changes in the lungs defined as airway remodelling. Mast cell responses are important in asthma as they, upon activation, release mediators inducing bronchoconstriction, inflammatory ...
Patricia Ramos-Ramírez, Jielu Liu, Sofia Mogren, Joshua Gregory, Malin Noreby, Anne Petrén, Ying Lei, Henric Olsson, Marianne van Hage, Jukka Kervinen, Lars Hellman, Cecilia Andersson, Gunnar Nilsson, Mikael Adner   +13 more
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Epidemiology of Asthma in Children and Adults

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2019
Asthma is a globally significant non-communicable disease with major public health consequences for both children and adults, including high morbidity, and mortality in severe cases.
S. Dharmage, J. Perret, A. Custovic
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A 5-year Study of Systemic Reactions Using both Shared and Patient-Specific Vaccines

Allergy & Rhinology, 2013
The safety of shared specific vaccines (SSVs) has been questioned by some experts. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of SSVs. Details of systemic allergic reactions after subcutaneous immunotherapy injections were captured on a ...
Julian Melamed M.D., Ami Mehra M.D., Angela Ahuja-Malik M.D.   +2 more
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(Correcting) misdiagnoses of asthma: A cost effectiveness analysis [PDF]

, 2011
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Amanda Sumner, BN Awadh, Douglas Coyle, HM Sharpe, K Bahadori, Katherine Vandemheen, KB Weiss, L McKnight-Eily, LC O'Dowd, MD Krahn, MG Cisternas, MK Campbell, Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary/Comparative Drug Index, P Kenny, R Jin, RB Haynes, S Diaz-Lobato, S Kamble, SD Aaron, Shawn Aaron, Smita Pakhale, SP Corrigan, Statistics Canada, VP Luks, WJ Ungar   +24 more
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Feasibility of sustained response through long-term dosing in food allergy immunotherapy

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2017
Background Clinical trials using oral immunotherapy (OIT) for the treatment of food allergies have shown promising results. We previously demonstrated the feasibility of desensitization for up to 5 food allergens simultaneously through OIT.
Sandra Andorf, Monali Manohar, Tina Dominguez, Whitney Block, Dana Tupa, Rohun A. Kshirsagar, Vanitha Sampath, R. Sharon Chinthrajah, Kari C. Nadeau   +8 more
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High cytomegalovirus serology and subsequent COPD-related mortality: a longitudinal study

ERJ Open Research, 2020
Background Positive serology for cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been associated with all-cause mortality risk but its role in COPD mortality is unknown. The objective of the present study was to assess the relationship between CMV serology and COPD mortality.
Raffaella Nenna, Jing Zhai, Samuel E. Packard, Amber Spangenberg, Duane L. Sherrill, Fernando D. Martinez, Marilyn Halonen, Stefano Guerra   +7 more
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Cytomegalovirus serology in young to mid‐adult life and decline of lung function

The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2023
Introduction Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seropositivity has been recently linked to severity and progression of asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). To date, no longitudinal study has addressed the relation of CMV serology
Raffaella Nenna, Jing Zhai, Amber Spangenberg, Duane L. Sherrill, Fernando D. Martinez, Marilyn Halonen, Stefano Guerra   +6 more
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The association of exhaled nitric oxide with air pollutants in young infants of asthmatic mothers

Environmental Health, 2023
Background Exhaled nitric oxide is a marker of airway inflammation. Air pollution induces airway inflammation and oxidative stress. Little is known about the impact of air pollution on exhaled nitric oxide in young infants. Methods The Breathing for Life
Elizabeth Percival, Adam M. Collison, Carla Rebeca da Silva Sena, Ediane De Queiroz Andrade, Patricia De Gouveia Belinelo, Gabriela Martins Costa Gomes, Christopher Oldmeadow, Vanessa E. Murphy, Peter G. Gibson, Wilfried Karmaus, Joerg Mattes   +10 more
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Prevalence of asthma and COPD and blood eosinophil count in a middle-aged Belgian population [PDF]

, 2019
Various phenotypes exist in asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). These are important to identify in order to guide treatment decisions.
Brusselle, Guy, De Buyzere, Marc, Lahousse, Lies, Rietzschel, Ernst, Wijnant, Sara   +4 more
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Asthma [PDF]

Medical Clinics of North America, 1986
Asthma represents a readily treatable disease that today is still associated with significant morbidity and mortality, much of which may be preventable with prompt and correct therapy. An understanding of the clinical presentations of this disease, as well as an understanding of effective, multiagent therapy, is the goal of this article.
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