Excessive Airway Nerves Tied to More Severe Asthma Symptoms (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Excessive Airway Nerves Tied to More Severe Asthma Symptoms (1 of 2)

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3D nerve models show increased airway innervation and branching in biopsies from patients with persistent asthma (right) compared to patients with intermittent asthma or controls. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 5, 2018, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.G. Drake Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR; and colleagues was titled, "Eosinophils increase airway sensory nerve density in mice and in human asthma."

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M.G. Drake <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)

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