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Trial reportJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2015

Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease Involves a Cysteinyl Leukotriene-Driven IL-33-Mediated Mast Cell Activation Pathway.

Tao Liu, Yoshihide Kanaoka, Nora A Barrett, Chunli Feng, Denise Garofalo, Juying Lai, Kathleen Buchheit, Neil Bhattacharya, Tanya M Laidlaw, Howard R Katz and 1 more

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Trial report in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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75citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. CD25 expression marks an activated mast cell population in human nasal polyposis.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2026
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  7. Platelet-mast cell dialogue in innate immune response and inflammation.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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  10. Platelets engage mast cells in a bilateral IL-33-driven feed-forward loop.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Clinical and mechanistic advancements in aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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  13. New insights into the mechanisms of aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
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  14. Cysteinyl Leukotrienes in Allergic Inflammation.Annual review of pathology · 2025
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  16. Low Prostaglandin EJournal of clinical medicine · 2024
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  18. Efficacy of Biologics in NSAID-ERD: United Airways From the Nose to the Bronchi.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tao LiuDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Yoshihide KanaokaDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Nora A BarrettDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Chunli FengDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Denise GarofaloDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Juying LaiDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Kathleen BuchheitDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Neil BhattacharyaDepartment of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; and.
Tanya M LaidlawDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Howard R KatzDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115;
Joshua A BoyceDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Boston, MA 02115; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 jboyce@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Therapeutic Control of Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory DiseaseU19AI095219 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus · 2011 to 2026
$29.1M
The Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids and Inflammatory Disease PreventionP50AT002782 · NCCIH · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CHILTON, FLOYD H · 2005 to 2014
$15.3M
IMMUNOLOGIC BASIS OF RESISTANCE AND HYPERSENSITIVITYT32AI007306 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Nora Amanda Barrett, Joshua A Boyce · 1985 to 2026
$12.2M
Regulation of Pulmonary Prostaglandins by Leukotriene E4R01AI078908 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2009 to 2025
$8.8M
CysLT and P2Y Receptors in Lung InflammationR37AI052353 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2013 to 2022
$5.2M
CystLT and P2Y Receptors and Lung InflammationR01AI052353 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2002 to 2012
$4.2M
Allergic Pulmonary Inflammation Through the Dectin-2 PathwayR01HL120952 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BARRETT, NORA AMANDA · 2014 to 2018
$2.0M
Eicosanoid Networks in Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory DiseaseR01HL117945 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2013 to 2016
$1.5M
The inflammatory role of the platelet in aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease.K23HL111113 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LAIDLAW, TANYA MARIA · 2012 to 2016
$721k
Characterization of a Novel Growth and Survival Factor for Human Mast CellsR21AI115137 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2015 to 2016
$488k
Lipidomic and Transcriptome Signatures in Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory DiseaseR21AI082369 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2009 to 2010
$487k
CysLt and P2Y Receptors and Lung InflammationR56AI052353 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BOYCE, JOSHUA A · 2007 to 2007
$419k
NCCIH NIH HHS AT002782NCCIH NIH HHS P50 AT002782NHLBI NIH HHS HL111113NHLBI NIH HHS HL117945NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL111113NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL117945NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL120952NIAID NIH HHS AI078908NIAID NIH HHS AI082369NIAID NIH HHS AI095219NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052353NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI078908NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI082369NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI115137NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI052353NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI052353NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007306NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI095219
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), a severe eosinophilic inflammatory disorder of the airways, involves overproduction of cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysLTs), activation of airway mast cells (MCs), and bronchoconstriction in response to nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitors that deplete homeostatic PGE2. The mechanistic basis for MC activation in this disorder is unknown. We now demonstrate that patients with AERD have markedly increased epithelial expression of the alarmin-like cytokine IL-33 in nasal polyps, as compared with polyps from aspirin-tolerant control subjects. The murine model of AERD, generated by dust mite priming of mice lacking microsomal PGE2 synthase (ptges(-/-) mice), shows a similar upregulation of IL-33 protein in the airway epithelium, along with marked eosinophilic bronchovascular inflammation. Deletion of leukotriene C4 synthase, the terminal enzyme needed to generate cysLTs, eliminates the increased IL-33 content of the ptges(-/-) lungs and sharply reduces pulmonary eosinophilia and basal secretion of MC products. Challenges of dust mite-primed ptges(-/-) mice with lysine aspirin induce IL-33-dependent MC activation and bronchoconstriction. Thus, IL-33 is a component of a cysLT-driven innate type 2 immune response that drives pathogenic MC activation and contributes substantially to AERD pathogenesis.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateAdolescentAdultAgedAnimalsAsthma, Aspirin-InducedDinoprostoneFemaleHumansInterleukin-33Intramolecular OxidoreductasesLeukotrienesMaleMast CellsMiceMice, KnockoutDinoprostoneIL33 protein, humanIl33 protein, mouseInterleukin-33Intramolecular OxidoreductasesLeukotrienesProstaglandin-E SynthasesPTGES protein, humanPtges protein, mouse

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PMID26342029
PMCPMC4592820
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