..., namely chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema, sometimes simultaneously present in the same subject. Objectives: The aim of our study was to compare sputum inflammatory markers in patients with different phenotypes of chronic airway obstruction. Methods: Forty-five subjects (forced...

...Min Xie; Xian-Sheng Liu; Yong-Jian Xu; Zhen-Xiang Zhang; Jing Bai; Wang Ni; Shi-Xin Chen Background: It has been demonstrated that the phenotypic modulation of airway smooth muscle cells (ASMCs) is important to the pathogenesis of airway remodeling in chronic asthma. The extracellular signal...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Asthma Chronic asthma Montelukast Steroids Theophylline Asthma is a disease showing a wide variation in resistance to flow in intrapulmonary airways over short periods of time [ 1...