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Murine Model of Allergen Induced Asthma
Published on: May 14, 2012
Asthma phenotypes today
1Specialista in Allergologia e Immunologia Clinica, Specialista Malattie Apparato Respiratorio, Bergamo, Italia.
Abstract:
PubMed databases were searched for articles regarding asthma phenotypes. Asthma has long been recognized as a heterogeneous disease, with hallmark features including age of onset, pattern of severity and other clinical characteristics, but recently it is no longer considered as single disease but rather as a series of complex, overlapping individual phenotypes, and a novel classification of the disease according to the nature of the underlying airway inflammation has been suggested. It has become increasingly clear that asthma is a complex syndrome. Recognition of specific subphenotypes may improve our understanding of underlying genetic basis and of pathophysiologic mechanisms as well as of response to treatment.
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