Appropriate exercise programs can provide benefits to people with asthma – News-Medical.net

Appropriate exercise programs can provide benefits to people with asthma
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Appropriate exercise programs can provide valuable benefits to people with asthma, helping to reduce the severity of attacks or prevent them entirely, finds a new evidence review in The Cochrane Library. The review also showed that, contrary to fears

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Are mouse models of asthma appropriate for investigating the pathogenesis of airway hyper-responsiveness?

Are mouse models of asthma appropriate for investigating the pathogenesis of airway hyper-responsiveness?

Front Physiol. 2012;3:312

Authors: Kumar RK, Foster PS

Abstract
Whether mouse models of chronic asthma can be used to investigate the relationship between airway inflammation/remodeling and airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) is a vexed question. It raises issues about the extent to which such models replicate key features of the human disease. Here, we review some of the characteristic pathological features of human asthma and their relationship to AHR and examine some limitations of mouse models that are commonly used to investigate these relationships. We compare these conventional models with our mouse model of chronic asthma involving long-term low-level inhalational challenge and review studies of the relationship between inflammation/remodeling and AHR in this model and its derivatives, including models of an acute exacerbation of chronic asthma and of the induction phase of childhood asthma. We conclude that while extrapolating from studies in mouse models to AHR in humans requires cautious interpretation, such experimental work can provide significant insights into the pathogenesis of airway responsiveness and its molecular and cellular regulation.

PMID: 23060800 [PubMed – in process]

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