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Article: CURRENT ASTHMA ETIOLOGY NOT NECESSARILY SO AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS, NOT JUST IMMUNE SYSTEM, ACCOUNT FOR DISEASE, REPORTS PULMONOLOGIST.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- May 4, 1999
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Asthma sufferers undergo myriad needle-prick skin tests to track down the countless environmental allergens that may be causing their symptoms. But there's a paradox underlying this assumption that asthma is an allergic malady, said pulmonologist and cell biologist Michael Holtzman, at Washington University in St. Louis.
He pointed out that "many asthmatic patients don't suffer from allergies, and most patients with allergies don't develop asthma. Even people in whom you could take an allergen and place it right in their airway," Holtzman told BioWorld Today, "might get a local allergic response, but never develop asthma. So, obviously, something is missing from ...