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... mouth and descend into our airways when we breathe. This can cause inflammation, as the body interprets the particles as invaders that need to be fought off. This inflammation is meant to protect our body for sickness. Unfortunately, in a cruel twist of fate, this inflammation instead damages the lung tissue, causing ongoing lung ...
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... working on designing an individualised medication therapy to treat inflammation in the airway and throughout the body. The study measures the inflammatory cells found in the blood or if there is systemic inflammation of the other organs throughout the body and then treats ...
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... group has developed expertise in identifying respiratory viruses in airway secretions and developing an in-vitro cell culture model of the airway epithelium that we use to model the effect of infection and inflammation. He is the centre director for the John Hunter Adult Cystic ...
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... strategy, which determines treatment changes based on a marker of airway inflammation, improves outcomes for maternal, neonatal and child health. ... whether using modified gut microbes assists in controlling lung inflammation in people with emphysema, a condition for which there are ...
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... for his contribution to medicine through his dissertation on Inflammation in Airways Disease. A higher doctoral degree is awarded to ... asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), cough and other airway disorders. Co-Director of the HMRI Viruses, Infections/Immunity, ...
Category: Research
... adults with asthma suggests that a low fibre diet worsens asthma and airway inflammation, via several key mechanistic pathways. Here we will examine ...
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... Simpson has carved an international research niche by focusing on airway inflammation caused by neutrophils, which are white blood cells that ...
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... to infection with the cold virus. Researchers found that asthmatic airway cells and immune cells responded poorly to infection with the ... who recorded the greatest worsening of asthma showing increased inflammation, lower lung function and were deficient in the release of ...
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... that is added to current therapy and is expected to reduce inflammation, the number of exacerbations a patient experiences and the ... corticosteroids. This new medicine is a targeted way of dealing with inflammation in asthma, and forms part of the new approach to asthma ...
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... by this group which are critical markers and regulators of airways inflammation in response to viral infections. “It is also possible ...
