Pawel Kozlik-Siwiec, Sylwia Buregwa-Czuma, Izabela Zawlik, Sylwia Dziedzina, Aleksander Myszka, Joanna Zuk-Kuwik, Andzelika Siwiec-Kozlik, Jacek Zarychta, Krzysztof Okon, Lech Zareba, Jerzy Soja, Bogdan Jakiela, Michał Kepski, Jan G Bazan, Stanislawa Bazan-Socha
Asthma heterogeneity complicates the search for targeted treatment against airway inflammation and remodeling. We sought to investigate relations between eosinophilic inflammation, a phenotypic feature frequent in severe asthma, bronchial epithelial transcriptome, and functional and structural measures of airway remodeling. We compared epithelial gene expression, spirometry, airway cross-sectional geometry (computed tomography), reticular basement membrane thickness (histology), and blood and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cytokines of n = 40 moderate to severe eosinophilic (EA) and non-eosinophilic asthma (NEA) patients distinguished by BAL eosinophilia...
February 14, 2023: International Journal of Molecular Sciences