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Pulmonary Remodeling in Equine Asthma: What Do We Know about Mediators of Inflammation in the Horse?
Mediators of inflammation - 1 Jan 2016
Barton Ann Kristin, Gehlen Heidrun
Abstract excerpt
Equine inflammatory airway disease (IAD) and recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) represent a spectrum of chronic inflammatory disease of the airways in horses resembling human asthma in many aspects. Therefore, both are now described as severity grades of equine asthma. Increasing evidence in horses and humans suggests that local pulmonary inflammation is influenced by systemic inflammatory processes and the other...
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