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Role of gob-5 in mucus overproduction and airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Apr 2001
Nakanishi A, Morita S, Iwashita H, Sagiya Y, Ashida Y, Shirafuji H, Fujisawa Y, Nishimura O, Fujino M
Abstract excerpt
Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), goblet cell metaplasia, and mucus overproduction are important features of bronchial asthma. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms behind these pulmonary pathologies, we examined for genes preferentially expressed in the lungs of a murine model of allergic asthma by using suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH). We identified a gene called gob-5 that had a selective...
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