Respiratory syncytial virus: infection, detection, and new options for prevention and treatment

C Griffiths, SJ Drews, DJ Marchant - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is a significant cause of hospitalization of children
in North America and one of the leading causes of death of infants less than 1 year of age …

Asthma: from bronchoconstriction to airways inflammation and remodeling

J Bousquet, PK Jeffery, WW Busse… - American journal of …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
Asthma | From Bronchoconstriction to Airways Inflammation and Remodeling | American
Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ATS Journals Logo Official Publications …

[图书][B] The mathematics and mechanics of biological growth

A Goriely - 2017 - books.google.com
This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

Prevalence and risk factors of small airway dysfunction, and association with smoking, in China: findings from a national cross-sectional study

D Xiao, Z Chen, S Wu, K Huang, J Xu… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Small airway dysfunction is a common but neglected respiratory abnormality.
Little is known about its prevalence, risk factors, and prognostic factors in China or anywhere …

Airway remodeling heterogeneity in asthma and its relationship to disease outcomes

A Hsieh, N Assadinia, TL Hackett - Frontiers in physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Asthma affects an estimated 262 million people worldwide and caused over 461,000 deaths
in 2019. The disease is characterized by chronic airway inflammation, reversible …

Techniques of assessing small airways dysfunction

W McNulty, OS Usmani - European clinical respiratory journal, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The small airways are defined as those less than 2 mm in diameter. They are a major site of
pathology in many lung diseases, not least chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …

Extracellular matrix component remodeling in respiratory diseases: what has been found in clinical and experimental studies?

JT Ito, JD Lourenço, RF Righetti, IFLC Tibério… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Changes in extracellular matrix (ECM) components in the lungs are associated with the
progression of respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

The Strudure of large and small Airways in Nonfatal and Fatal Asthma

N Carroll, J Elliot, A Morton, A James - Am Rev Respir Dis, 1993 - atsjournals.org
METHODS The left or right lungs of cadavers coming to Coroner's autopsy within the
metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia, were obtained if the cause of death was …

Airway smooth muscle hypertrophy and hyperplasia in asthma

AL James, JG Elliot, RL Jones, ML Carroll… - American journal of …, 2012 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Increased thickness of the airway smooth muscle (ASM) layer in asthma may
result from hyperplasia or hypertrophy of muscle cells or increased extracellular matrix …

Eosinophil-associated TGF- β1 mRNA Expression and Airways Fibrosis in Bronchial Asthma

EM Minshall, DYM Leung, RJ Martin… - American journal of …, 1997 - atsjournals.org
The histopathology of bronchial asthma is associated with structural changes within the
airways, including subepithelial fibrosis, as well as chronic eosinophilic inflammation. The …