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Giant Multinucleated Cells Are Associated with Mastocytic Inflammatory Signature Equine Asthma

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Equine asthma is currently diagnosed by the presence of increased neutrophil (>5%), mast cell (>2%), and/or eosinophil (>1%) differential cell count. Macrophages are normal resident cells within the alveoli.
Ilaria Basano   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Omalizumab: clinical use for the management of asthma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Omalizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds circulating IgE antibody, is a treatment option for patients with moderate to severe allergic asthma whose asthma is poorly controlled with inhaled corticosteroids and inhaled long-acting ß2 agonist ...
Rekha Chaudhuri   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Severely Asthmatic Horses Residing in a Mediterranean Climate Shed a Significantly Lower Number of Parasite Eggs Compared to Healthy Farm Mates

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
The relationship between helminth infection and allergic diseases has long intrigued the scientific community. This interaction was previously studied in a horse family with high incidence of severe equine asthma and in non-related severely asthmatic ...
Joana Simões   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Problematic severe asthma in children, not one problem but many: a GA(2)LEN initiative

open access: yes, 2010
Although most children with asthma are easy to treat with low doses of safe medications, many remain symptomatic despite every therapeutic effort.
Hedlin G   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Lung Function Variation during the Estrus Cycle of Mares Affected by Severe Asthma

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
While the prevalence of asthma is higher in boys than in girls during childhood, this tendency reverses at puberty, suggesting an effect of sex hormones on the disease pathophysiology.
Sophie Mainguy-Seers   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

CHI3L1 polymorphisms, cord blood YKL-40 levels and later asthma development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1), the gene encoding YKL-40, and increased serum YKL-40 levels are associated with severe forms of asthma. It has never been addressed whether SNPs in CHI3L1 and cord blood YKL-40 levels
Gorlanova, Olga   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

EGF-induced bronchial epithelial cells drive neutrophil chemotactic and anti-apoptotic activity in asthma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +2 more sources

Some Genetic and Environmental Effects on Equine Asthma in Polish Konik Horses

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Current knowledge of the genetic and environmental backgrounds of equine asthma seems to be insufficient, especially for primitive horse breeds. The main objectives of this study were to estimate the effects of sex, birth period, stud, parentage line and
Alicja Borowska   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long term (5 Year) safety of bronchial thermoplasty: Asthma Intervention Research (AIR) trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
<b>Background:</b> Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic procedure that improves asthma control by reducing excess airway smooth muscle.
Rubin AS   +86 more
core   +2 more sources

Severe asthma is associated with a remodeling of the pulmonary arteries in horses.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale are complications of severe equine asthma, as a consequence of pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction. However, as pulmonary hypertension is only partially reversible by oxygen administration, other etiological ...
Serena Ceriotti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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