Sentences with phrase «characterized as asthma»
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Upper respiratory tract inflammatory diseases such as asthma and COPD affect more than half a billion people worldwide and are characterized by chronic inflammation that is aggravated by respiratory pathogens such as NTHi.
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As part of a large NIH - funded effort to develop immunotherapies for this allergy (the Inner City Asthma Consortium, or ICAC), the Sette lab has thus identified dominant epitopes to characterize T cell responses in allergic individuals before and after immunotherapy.
Their recent study, published in PNAS (3), characterizes the mechanism of action of a smooth muscle myosin inhibitor, CK - 2018571, that induces smooth muscle relaxation and can be used to treat diseases involving smooth muscle hypercontractility, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
My laboratory aims to identify, characterize and validate lncRNA - driven pathways active in allergy - driving helper T cells and airway epithelial cells that could hold promise as therapeutic targets in altering the aberrant immune responses underlying asthma.