LIF Upregulates Expression of NK-1R in NHBE Cells by Cheng-Ping Hu, Jun-Tao Feng, Yu-Ling Tang, Jin-Qi Zhu, Min-Juan Lin, Ming-En Yu

“…In summary, bronchial epithelial cell changes in asthma are induced by LIF which promotes the expression of NK-1R, and JAK/STAT pathway and MAPK/ERK pathway may participate in this process.…”
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Tomatidine Improves Pulmonary Inflammation in Mice with Acute Lung Injury by Wen-Chung Huang, Shu-Ju Wu, Ya-Ling Chen, Chwan-Fwu Lin, Chian-Jiun Liou

“…Tomatidine, which is isolated from green tomato, can ameliorate inflammation and oxidative stress in cells and animal experiments and has been shown to improve airway inflammation in a murine model of asthma. Here, we investigated whether tomatidine can ameliorate acute lung injury in mice. …”
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Association between cadherin-related family member 3 rs6967330-A and human rhinovirus-C induced wheezing in children by Hanhaoyu Fu, Ri De, Yu Sun, Yao Yao, Runan Zhu, Dongmei Chen, Yutong Zhou, Qi Guo, Linqing Zhao

“…More patients infected with HRV-C had history of allergy (P = 0.004), family history of asthma (P = 0.001), wheezing (P = 0.005) and asthma (P = 0.001) than those infected with HRV-A or HRV-B, while patients infected with HRV-C were less likely to have older siblings compared to those infected with HRV-A (P = 0.014). …”
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Effects of the cationic protein poly-L-arginine on airway epithelial cells in vitro by Shahida Shahana, Caroline Kampf, Godfried M. Roomans

“…Background: Allergic asthma is associated with an increased number of eosinophils in the airway wall. …”
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Headlines for Health! Let's Go Green by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Headlines for Health! Pollution Solution by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Keeping it Clean: Controlling Mildew by Mary N. Harrison

“…You should be concerned about mildew because it makes respiratory problems, like asthma, worse. This document is FCS5232-11, one of a series on Home Cleaning and Repairing of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Headlines for Health! Sherlock "Radon" Holmes by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Headlines for Health! The Lead Scenario by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Keeping it Clean: Controlling Mildew by Mary N. Harrison

“…You should be concerned about mildew because it makes respiratory problems, like asthma, worse. This document is FCS5232-11, one of a series on Home Cleaning and Repairing of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Inhaled Glucocoriticoids in Children: A Facourable Therapeutic Index by F Estelle R Simons

“…In children with persistent asthma, inhaled glucocorticoids decrease symptoms and exacerbations, decrease the need for rescue bronchodilator medications, improve airway patency and reduce airway hyperresponsiveness. …”
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RNA-seq reproducibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in laboratory models of cystic fibrosis by Rebecca P. Duncan, Gina R. Lewin, Daniel M. Cornforth, Frances L. Diggle, Ananya Kapur, Dina A. Moustafa, Yasmin Hilliam, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Marvin Whiteley, Joanna B. Goldberg

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Correlation between Reduced FEF25-75% and a Positive Methacholine Challenge Test in Adults with Nonobstructive Baseline Spirometry by Irfan Shafiq, Mateen Haider Uzbeck, Zaid Zoumot, Mohamed Abuzakouk, Niyas Parappurath, Ali Saeed Wahla

“…It is reduced in children with asthma, but its significance in adults and especially those without asthma diagnosis remains unclear. …”
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Link between bilaterality and type 2 inflammation in respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartomas: A two-center retrospective cohort study. by Yujin Heo, Sang Duk Hong, Hyo Yeol Kim, Gwanghui Ryu, Kyung Won Kwon, Yong Gi Jung

“…REAH_bi was significantly associated with asthma (p = 0.012), prior sinus surgery (p = 0.002), and inflammatory polyposis (p = 0.002) compared to REAH_uni. …”
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A nested case-control study evaluating the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and immune-mediated inflammatory disease in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging by Charles N Bernstein, Ruth Ann Marrie, Julia O'Mahony

“…We evaluated whether the association of ACE with disease differs between IMID and other chronic diseases.Design Nested retrospective case-control study.Setting We used data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), which recruited participants aged 45–85 years between 2010 and 2015.Participants We included 12 627 CLSA participants: 2 102 who reported diagnoses of IMID (258 multiple sclerosis (MS), 1 692 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 160 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)), 5 519 with diabetes, 170 with epilepsy, 3 889 with asthma and 1 125 with no chronic diseases. ACE, including childhood maltreatment (physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect) and household dysfunction, were queried using questions from the Childhood Experiences of Violence Questionnaire-Short Form and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Wave III questionnaire.Primary and secondary outcome measures We first evaluated whether the association of maltreatment differed across diagnoses (IMID, diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, no chronic diseases). …”
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Suppressors of Cytokine Signaling 3 Expression in Eosinophils: Regulation by PGE2 and Th2 Cytokines by Esther López, María Paz Zafra, Beatriz Sastre, Cristina Gámez, Mar Fernández-Nieto, Joaquín Sastre, Carlos Lahoz, Santiago Quirce, Victoria Del Pozo

“…Asthma and nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis (NAEB) are respiratory disorders characterized by a predominance of Th2 cells and eosinophilic inflammation. …”
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Effects of screentime on the health and well-being of children and adolescents: a systematic review of reviews by Russell M Viner, Neza Stiglic

“…There was no or insufficient evidence for an association of screentime with eating disorders or suicidal ideation, individual cardiovascular risk factors, asthma prevalence or pain. Evidence for threshold effects was weak. …”
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Abnormal Functional Connectivity of Ventral Anterior Insula in Asthmatic Patients with Depression by Yuqun Zhang, Yuan Yang, Rongrong Bian, Yingying Yin, Zhenghua Hou, Yingying Yue, Zhi Xu, Yonggui Yuan

“…This study confirmed that abnormal vAI FC may be involved in the neuropathology of depression in asthma. The increased FC between the left vAI and the left MTG could distinguish DA from the NDA and HC groups.…”
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Headlines for Health! AD-vantageous Cleaners by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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Headlines for Health! Newspaper Fact Sheets by Joy C. Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, Jessica Kochert

“…A series of six lessons targeted to 5th grade youth covers hazardous household products, mold, lead, radon, air pollution, and asthma triggers. Each lesson is mapped to relevant Sunshine State Standards. …”
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