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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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Asthma and natural colds. Inflammatory indices in induced sputum: a feasibility study.

TL;DR: It is concluded that induced sputum examination can be used to study the effects of natural colds and influenza on the airways of the lungs and the results suggest that naturalcolds, on Day 4, cause neutrophilic lower airway inflammation that is greater in asthmatics than in healthy subjects.
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Management of severe asthma in children.

TL;DR: Getting the basics right in children with apparently severe asthma will remain the foundation of management for the foreseeable future.
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The importance of nurse led home visits in the assessment of children with problematic asthma

TL;DR: Nurse-led assessments including a home visit can help identify potentially modifiable factors for poorly controlled symptoms in children with problematic asthma.
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In vitro susceptibility to rhinovirus infection is greater for bronchial than for nasal airway epithelial cells in human subjects.

TL;DR: Differentiated nasal epithelial cells might have mechanisms of increased resistance to rhinovirus infection compared with bronchial epithelium, and previous reports of increased susceptibility to HRV infection in epithel cells from asthmatic subjects were not confirmed.
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