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Mechanisms of Airway Remodeling

Nobuaki Hirota, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
- Vol. 144, Iss: 3, pp 1026-1032
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Airway remodeling is often considered the result of longstanding airway inflammation, but it may be present to an equivalent degree in the airways of children with asthma, raising the necessity for early and specific therapeutic interventions.
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This article is published in Chest.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 260 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Airway.

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Neutrophilic Inflammation in Asthma and Association with Disease Severity.

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Cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma and COPD.

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Airway remodeling in asthma: what really matters.

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Fluticasone inhibits but does not reverse allergen-induced structural airway changes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that concomitant treatment with FP partly inhibits structural airway changes as well as hyperresponsiveness induced by OA exposure, and post hoc treatment fails to reverse established airway remodeling.
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Cysteinyl leukotrienes promote human airway smooth muscle migration.

TL;DR: It is suggested that cysteinyl leukotrienes play an augmentary role in human ASM migration and the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase pathway is a key signaling mechanism in the chemotactic migration of ASM cells in response to cysteiny leukOTrienes.
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Mechanisms of induction of airway smooth muscle hyperplasia by transforming growth factor-β

TL;DR: It is suggested that TGF-beta1 may act in an autocrine fashion to induce ASM hyperplasia, mediated by its receptor and several kinases including PI3K, ERK, and JNK, whereas p38 MAPK is a negative regulator.
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Angiotensin receptor blockade attenuates cigarette smoke–induced lung injury and rescues lung architecture in mice

TL;DR: Data support the hypothesis that inhibition of TGF-β signaling through angiotensin receptor blockade can attenuate CS-induced lung injury in an established murine model, and provide a preclinical platform for the development of other T GF-β-targeted therapies for patients with COPD.
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