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SUBMITTER: Chang YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3417123 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Ya-Jen YJ Kim Hye Young HY Albacker Lee A LA Baumgarth Nicole N McKenzie Andrew N J AN Smith Dirk E DE Dekruyff Rosemarie H RH Umetsu Dale T DT
Nature immunology 20110529 7
Patients with asthma, a major public health problem, are at high risk for serious disease from influenza virus infection, but the pathogenic mechanisms by which influenza A causes airway disease and asthma are not fully known. We show here in a mouse model that influenza infection acutely induced airway hyper-reactivity (AHR), a cardinal feature of asthma, independently of T helper type 2 (T(H)2) cells and adaptive immunity. Instead, influenza infection induced AHR through a previously unknown p ...[more]