In vitro, in silico and in vivo study challenges the impact of bronchial thermoplasty on acute airway smooth muscle mass loss

Bronchial thermoplasty is a treatment for asthma. Whether during thermoplasty the airway wall fraction exposed to temperatures necessary to affect cells is sufficient to explain its histopathological impact is unclear. Airway smooth muscle and bronchial epithelial cells were exposed to media (37-70...

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Main Authors: Chernyavsky, Igor L., Russell, Richard J., Saunders, Ruth M., Morris, Gavin E., Berair, Rachid, Singapuri, Amisha, Chachi, Latifa, Mansur, Adel H., Howarth, Peter H., Dennison, Paddy, Chaudhuri, Rekha, Bicknell, Stephen, Rose, Felicity R A.J., Siddiqui, Salman, Brook, Bindi S., Brightling, Christopher E.
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Published: European Respiratory Society 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50894/