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Elevation of IL-6 in the allergic asthmatic airway is independent of inflammation but associates with loss of central airway function
BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway that is characterized by a Th2-type of immune response with increasing evidence for involvement of Th17 cells. The role of IL-6 in promoting effector T cell subsets suggest that IL-6 may play a functional role in asthma. Classically...
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-11-28 |