Utility of serum periostin in combination with exhaled nitric oxide in the management of asthma
Type-2/eosinophilic inflammation plays a pivotal role in asthma. The identification of severe type-2/eosinophilic asthma is important for improving the management of patients with asthma.
Tadao Nagasaki +19 more
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Asthma control and sputum eosinophils in adult patients: a cross-sectional study in southern Brazil
Asthma control and health related quality of life are an important goal of asthma management, but their association with sputum eosinophilic inflammation has been less firmly established.
Vanessa Albano Barcellos +3 more
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Development of eosinophilic pneumonia from eosinophilic bronchiolitis without asthma: A case report
Eosinophilic bronchiolitis is a disease concept reported in Japan in 2001, that presents with bronchiolitis accompanied by eosinophilia in the blood and lungs.
Erika Mikami +8 more
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EGF-induced bronchial epithelial cells drive neutrophil chemotactic and anti-apoptotic activity in asthma [PDF]
Chronic damage and repair of the bronchial epithelium are features of asthma. We have previously reported that ex vivo stimulation of normal bronchial epithelial cells with epidermal growth factor (EGF), a key factor of epithelial repair, enhances the ...
Donna E Davies +52 more
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Background Eosinophilia is a significant factor in asthma severity; however, the prevalence of severe eosinophilic asthma in Saudi Arabia is largely unknown.
Hamdan Al-Jahdali +6 more
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The pathogenesis of allergic asthma is complex, it is usually caused by immune system imbalance. Th1, Th2, regulatory T cells (Treg) and T helper 17 (Th17) cells have an important role in the pathogenesis of eosinophilic asthma.
Yumei Zhou +4 more
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Association of asthma genetic variants with asthma-associated traits reveals molecular pathways of eosinophilic asthma [PDF]
Introduction Asthma is a complex, polygenic, heterogenous inflammatory disease. Recently, we generated a list of 128 independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with asthma in genome-wide association studies.
El-Husseini, Zaid W. +12 more
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Background: Severe eosinophilic asthma decreases lung function and causes worsen symptoms, often forcing recurrent maintenance corticosteroid use. The aim of our real-life study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an add-on treatment with benralizumab ...
Giulia Scioscia +14 more
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The cough variant asthma [PDF]
Cough variant asthma (CVA) was first described by W. Corrao. CVA was described as the isolated chronic cough as the only presenting symptom responsive to bronchodilator therapy.This phenotype of asthma is present with airway hyperresponsiveness ...
M. O. Uryasjev +3 more
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Risk factors for asthma and allergy associated with urban migration: background and methodology of a cross-sectional study in Afro-Ecuadorian school children in Northeastern Ecuador (Esmeraldas-SCAALA Study). [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Asthma and allergic diseases are becoming increasingly frequent in children in urban centres of Latin America although the prevalence of allergic disease is still low in rural areas.
Cooper Philip J +51 more
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