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Impaired innate interferon induction in severe therapy resistant atopic asthmatic children.

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It is shown that compared with non-allergic healthy control children, bronchial epithelial cells cultured ex vivo from severe therapy resistant atopic asthmatic children have profoundly impaired interferon-β and interferons-λ mRNA and protein in response to rhinovirus (RV) and polyIC stimulation, and this is a feature of STRA.
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This article is published in Mucosal Immunology.The article was published on 2013-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 189 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interferon.

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The immunology of asthma

TL;DR: Results from in-depth molecular studies of mouse models in light of the results from the first clinical trials targeting key cytokines in humans are discussed and the extraordinary heterogeneity of asthma is described.
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The Cytokines of Asthma

TL;DR: The cytokine networks driving asthma are reviewed, placing these in cellular context and incorporating insights from cytokine-targeting therapies in the clinic, to argue that the development of new and improved therapeutics will require understanding the diverse mechanisms underlying the spectrum of asthma pathologies.
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Epidemiology of Asthma in Children and Adults.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need to further investigate the interrelationship between environmental and genetic determinants to identify high risk groups and key modifiable exposures and to define the role of environmental exposures in the development of asthma in both children and adults.
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Early local immune defences in the respiratory tract

TL;DR: The cell types that coordinate pathogen clearance and tissue repair through the serial secretion of cytokines are described, and how the environment and comorbidity influence this response is discussed.
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Supplementary materials to a paper "A large-scale, consortium-based genomewide association study of asthma"

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TYPE I INTERFERONS (α/β) IN IMMUNITY AND AUTOIMMUNITY

TL;DR: The significance of type I interferons (IFN-α/β) in biology and medicine renders research on their activities continuously relevant to our understanding of normal and abnormal (auto) immune responses as mentioned in this paper.
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Asthmatic bronchial epithelial cells have a deficient innate immune response to infection with rhinovirus

TL;DR: A causal link between deficient interferon-β, impaired apoptosis and increased virus replication is demonstrated, suggesting a novel use for type I interferons in the treatment or prevention of virus-induced asthma exacerbations.
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Role of deficient type III interferon-λ production in asthma exacerbations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show deficient induction of interferon-λs by rhinovirus in primary bronchial epithelial cells and alveolar macrophages, which was highly correlated with severity of rhinovirus induced asthma exacerbation and virus load in experimentally infected human volunteers.
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