Pathways activated during human asthma exacerbation as revealed by gene expression patterns in blood.

Asthma exacerbations remain a major unmet clinical need. The difficulty in obtaining airway tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage samples during exacerbations has greatly hampered study of naturally occurring exacerbations. This study was conducted to determine if mRNA profiling of peripheral blood mono...

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Main Authors: Unnur S Bjornsdottir, Stephen T Holgate, Padmalatha S Reddy, Andrew A Hill, Charlotte M McKee, Cristina I Csimma, Amy A Weaver, Holly M Legault, Clayton G Small, Renee C Ramsey, Debra K Ellis, Conor M Burke, Philip J Thompson, Peter H Howarth, Andrew J Wardlaw, Phillip G Bardin, David I Bernstein, Louis B Irving, Geoffrey L Chupp, George W Bensch, Gregory W Bensch, Jon E Stahlman, Monroe Karetzky, James W Baker, Rachel L Miller, Brad H Goodman, Donald G Raible, Samuel J Goldman, Douglas K Miller, John L Ryan, Andrew J Dorner, Frederick W Immermann, Margot O'Toole
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3136489?pdf=render