ArticleThorax2005
Epithelial stress and structural remodelling in childhood asthma.
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- Cadherin-26 Promotes Airway Remodeling via Stabilizing Epithelial Expression of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Asthma.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2026Article
- The potential of efferocytosis for the treatment of bronchial asthma: A review of current trends, mechanisms and prospects.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Review
- Interactions between epithelial mesenchymal plasticity, barrier dysfunction and innate immune pathways shape the genesis of allergic airway disease.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2025Review
- NF-κB/RelA signaling in secretoglobin progenitors mediates plasticity and MMP-induced barrier disruption in house dust mite-induced allergic asthma.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024Article
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- The New Paradigm: The Role of Proteins and Triggers in the Evolution of Allergic Asthma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Mucus Structure, Viscoelastic Properties, and Composition in Chronic Respiratory Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The epithelium takes the stage in asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Mechanisms of airway epithelial injury and abnormal repair in asthma and COPD.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Innate Immunity, Epithelial Plasticity, and Remodeling in Asthma.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
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- Elovanoids Counteract Inflammatory Signaling, Autophagy, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, and Senescence Gene Programming in Human Nasal Epithelial Cells Exposed to Allergens.Pharmaceutics · 2022Article
- The Role of Osthole on TGF-Journal of healthcare engineering · 2022Article
- Airway remodeling: TheFrontiers in allergy · 2022Review
- Role of SecretoglobinRespiratory research · 2021Article
- Airway Wall Remodeling in Childhood Asthma-A Personalized Perspective from Cell Type-Specific Biology.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Review
- Airway Epithelial Cells Drive Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype Switching to the Proliferative and Pro-inflammatory Phenotype.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn adult asthma the bronchial epithelium shows high expression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor, p21waf, linked to ongoing stress and injury.
methodsTo determine if these are early markers of disease, sections of bronchial specimens obtained post mortem or by bronchoscopy from non-asthmatic (n = 7), moderate (n = 7), or severe (n = 9) asthmatic children aged 5-15 years were examined immunohistochemically. All severe and one moderately asthmatic children were receiving inhaled corticosteroids.
resultsThe lamina reticularis of the asthmatic biopsy sections was found to be thicker (p = 0.01) than normal with increased deposition of collagen III (p = 0.007); submucosal eosinophil numbers did not differ between groups. As in adults, there was an asthma-related increase in epithelial EGFR (p<0.002) but there was no evidence of proliferation, with Ki67 being reduced (p = 0.001) and p21waf increased (p<0.004). The thickness of the lamina reticularis was significantly correlated with epithelial EGFR (rho = 0.77, p<0.001).
conclusionsThese data provide evidence that, in asthmatic children, the epithelium is stressed or injured without significant eosinophilic inflammation. This change in the epithelial phenotype is associated with collagen deposition in the lamina reticularis, suggesting that the epithelial mesenchymal trophic unit is active early in, and may contribute to, the pathogenesis of asthma.
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