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Research shows nasal spray that protects against COVID-19 is also effective against the common cold
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... able to use cells from human donors and re-grow the structure of the airway surface, the epithelium, to recreate the first line of defense against respiratory viruses.This model of the human airway was key to researchers showing that INNA-X can directly activate ... rhinovirus significantly reduced viral load and inhibited harmful inflammation. University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research ...
Asthma and Breathing Research Program
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... pulmonary disease (COPD), vocal cord dysfunction, nose and upper airway disorders, sleep disorders and sleep quality, pleural disease, interstitial lung diseases, airway infections and allergies, and symptom management.   Our program ... inside of the chest cavity. Pleurisy is a condition which occurs when inflammation of the pleura causes these membranes to run against each ...
Asthma duo honoured with European awards
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... excellence in previous achievements in clinical research on airway diseases, aiming to support a new generation of lung scientists ... of patients. It was purpose-built to block a protein causing inflammation in eosinophilic asthma. Professor Simpson, co-leader on AMAZES, has carved an international niche by focusing on airway inflammation caused by neutrophils, which are white blood cells ...
Unlocking why asthma is more severe for obese people for potential new treatments
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... Cytokines and inflammasomes pass signals between cells and trigger inflammation in the airways.   Chief Investigator and Associate ... researchers at University of Technology Sydney, Centre for inflammation Centenary Institute, Imperial College London, Trinity ... treatment options. Asthma is often linked to the immune system and inflammation because the immune system is thought to be a regulator of ...
Non-Eosinophilic Asthma - Common But Poorly Understood
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... around the diagnosis and phenotyping of asthma, with a focus on airway pathophysiology and inflammation. Hence, her Ph.D. thesis from 2006 described the usefulness ... provocation testing with mannitol for assessing inflammation driven airway hyperresponsiveness. During her post doc with Professor Peter ...
Asthma management breakthrough for pregnant women
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... developed an algorithm that adjusts inhaled therapies to better match airway inflammation. Results of a randomised controlled trial published today ... that the asthma exacerbation rate of pregnant women can halve if airway inflammation is closely monitored. Professor Gibson said ...
Peter Gibson
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... improving treatment regimens and management strategies for asthma and airway disease. Professor Gibson and his team are working to improve the ... in the immune system which are thought to exacerbate respiratory inflammation when expressed in excess in conditions such as ...
World Asthma Day
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Tuesday May 7 is World Asthma Day – a day to raise awareness for the airway disease that affects one in nine Australians. Find out how HMRI ... May 7 is World Asthma Day – a day to raise awareness for the airway disease that affects one in nine Australians. Every day HMRI ... the triggers (infection and air pollution) that drive neutrophilic inflammation in asthma. Neutrophils are white blood cells that fight ...
Researchers to examine kids’ weight loss and asthma
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... asthma in children. “We know that people with asthma experience airway inflammation, which can make breathing more difficult. Obesity may be one of several factors that contribute to airway inflammation,” said Dr Lisa Wood from the University of ...
Public Lecture - We Breathe What We Eat
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... focused on how antioxidants, fatty acids, fibre and obesity, modify inflammation in the airways. Prof Wood and her team have been leading a ... they have shown that eating high fat fast food meals can worsen airway inflammation and reduce the efficacy of asthma medications, such as ...
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