Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21682748›Full record

ReviewImmunological reviews2011

Human asthma phenotypes: from the clinic, to cytokines, and back again.

Nirav R Bhakta, Prescott G Woodruff

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
13.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 185 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Severe Asthmatic Responses: The Impact of TSLP.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  9. Precision Medicine in Asthma Therapy.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2023
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  12. Novel potential treatable traits in asthma: Where is the research taking us?The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2022
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  15. Purified Native and Recombinant MajorJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  18. Asthma Phenotypes as a Guide for Current and Future Biologic Therapies.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2020
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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nirav R BhaktaDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Prescott G Woodruff
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

MUTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING PROGRAM IN LUNG DISEASEST32HL007185 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI David J Erle, LAURENCE HUANG · 1985 to 2026
$24.6M
Molecular Phenotyping of AsthmaR01HL095372 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WOODRUFF, PRESCOTT G · 2008 to 2011
$3.1M
Role of Th2 and non-Th2 Inflammation in Airway Smooth Muscle Remodeling in AsthmaR01HL097591 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WOODRUFF, PRESCOTT G · 2009 to 2012
$1.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL007185NHLBI NIH HHS HL095372NHLBI NIH HHS HL097591NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL095372NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL097591NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007185
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large body of experimental evidence supports the hypothesis that T-helper 2 (Th2) cytokines orchestrate allergic airway inflammation in animal models. However, human asthma is heterogeneous with respect to clinical features, cellular sources of inflammation, and response to common therapies. This disease heterogeneity has been investigated using sputum cytology as well as unbiased clustering approaches using cellular and clinical data. Important differences in cytokine-driven inflammation may underlie this heterogeneity, and studies in human subjects with asthma have begun to elucidate these molecular differences. This molecular heterogeneity may be assessed by existing biomarkers (induced sputum evaluation or exhaled nitric oxide testing) or may require novel biomarkers. Effective testing and application of emerging therapies that target Th2 cytokines will depend on accurate and easily obtained biomarkers of this molecular heterogeneity in asthma. Furthermore, whether other non-Th2 cytokine pathways underlie airway inflammation in specific subsets of patients with asthma is an unresolved question and an important goal of future research using both mouse models and human studies.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateAdministration, InhalationAdrenal Cortex HormonesAdultAirway RemodelingAllergensAnimalsAsthmaBiomarkersChildEosinophilsHumansInflammationInterleukin-13MiceMice, KnockoutAdrenal Cortex HormonesAllergensBiomarkersInterleukin-13Nitric Oxide

Identifiers

PMID21682748
PMCPMC3391010
OpenAlexW2106117449

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