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SUBMITTER: Angulo EL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6730854 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angulo Evelyn L EL McKernan Elizabeth M EM Fichtinger Paul S PS Mathur Sameer K SK
PloS one 20190906 9
Eosinophils are the prominent inflammatory cell involved in allergic asthma, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, and hypereosinophilic syndrome and are found in high numbers in local tissue and/or circulating blood of affected patients. There is recent interest in a family of alarmins, including TSLP, IL-25 and IL-33, that are epithelial-derived and released upon stimulation of epithelial cells. Several genome wide association studies have found SNPs in genes encoding IL-33 to be risk f ...[more]