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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2026

Flavonoids as potential anti-asthmatic agents.

Zhuofen Deng, Haiyi Xin, Dongxin Yang, Zhenzhen Kang, Jiaying Liang, Jinhong He, Jun Gong

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Zhuofen Deng *Central Laboratory of YunFu People's Hospital, YunFu Key Laboratory of Brain Diseases Research, Guangdong Yunfu, China.
Haiyi Xin *Department of Pharmacy, YunFu People's Hospital, Guangdong Yunfu, China.
Dongxin YangCentral Laboratory of YunFu People's Hospital, YunFu Key Laboratory of Brain Diseases Research, Guangdong Yunfu, China.
Zhenzhen KangDepartment of Gynecology, YunFu People's Hospital, Guangdong Yunfu, China.
Jiaying LiangSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangdong Guangzhou, China.
Jinhong HeSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangdong Guangzhou, China.
Jun GongCentral Laboratory of YunFu People's Hospital, YunFu Key Laboratory of Brain Diseases Research, Guangdong Yunfu, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma affects approximately 260 million people globally and causes an estimated 450,000 deaths annually, posing a serious threat to human health and life quality. Current mainstay pharmacotherapies are effective for symptom control but are associated with well-documented systemic side effects and do not offer a cure. Flavonoids have garnered increasing scientific interest due to their pleiotropic biological activities; however, there is still a lack of summary on the mechanism of flavonoids in key pathological processes of asthma. This review summarizes the evidence on how flavonoids modulate key asthma pathologies, covering airway inflammation, T cell subset imbalance, airway remodeling, and smooth muscle contractility. However, clinical translation is severely constrained by poor solubility, rapid metabolism, and low oral bioavailability. Flavonoids exhibit multi-target therapeutic potential for asthma, but well-designed, large-scale clinical trials are necessary to validate these preclinical observations.

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Anti-Asthmatic AgentsAsthmaFlavonoidsAirway RemodelingAnimalsHumansAnti-Asthmatic AgentsFlavonoidsairway remodelingasthmaflavonoidsinflammationT cell

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PMID42597501
PMCPMC13469667

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