GENNARO D'AMATO, 1, 2 CAROLINA VITALE, 4 ALESSANDRO SANDUZZI, 2, 5 ANTONIO
MOLINO, 4 ALESSANDRO VATRELLA, 6 and MARIA D'AMATO41Division of Respiratory …

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IgE plays an important role in allergic asthma. We hypothesized that reducing IgE in the
airway mucosa would reduce airway inflammation. Forty-five patients with mild to moderate …

The increasing mobility of Europeans for business and leisure has led to a need for reliable
information about exposure to seasonal airborne allergens during travel abroad. Over the …

Exacerbations of asthma are likely to be due to an increase in airway inflammation. We have
studied noninvasive markers of airway inflammation in asthma exacerbations induced by …

Airway hyperresponsiveness is a characteristic feature of asthma and consists of an
increased sensitivity of the airways to an inhaled constrictor agonist, a steeper slope of the …

Mast cells (MC s) play a central role in tissue homoeostasis, sensing the local environment
through numerous innate cell surface receptors. This enables them to respond rapidly to …

Fibrosis is a medical condition characterized by an excessive deposition of extracellular
matrix compounds such as collagen in tissues. Fibrotic lesions are present in many diseases …

We have shown in nocturnal asthma that alveolar tissue eosinophils are increased at night
as compared with the proximal airway, and that they correlate with the overnight decrement …

OBJECTIVES: To study factors affecting the occurrence of exercise induced bronchospasm
(EIB) in elite runners. METHODS: Fifty eight elite runners, 79% of them belonging to Finnish …