Why is Effective Treatment of Asthma So Difficult? An Integrated Systems Biology Hypothesis of Asthma

Overview

Journal Immunol Cell Biol

Publisher Wiley

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
Cell Biology

Date 2009 Jun 24

PMID 19546879

Citations 4

Authors

Norbert F Voelkel

Sarah Spiegel

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Abstract

A hypothesis is presented that asthma is not only an airway disease, but that the disease involves the entire lung, and that the chronicity of asthma and asthma exacerbations can perhaps be explained if one considers asthma as a systemic disease. Increased lung-not only airway-vascularity may be the result of the action of angiogenesis factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P). A bone-marrow lung axis can be postulated as one element of the systemic nature of the asthma syndrome, in which the inflamed lung emits chemotactic signals, which the bone marrow responds to by releasing cells that contribute to lung angiogenesis. A molecular model of the pathobiology of asthma can be built by connecting hypoxia-inducible transcription factor-1 alpha, VEGF S1P, and bone-marrow precursor cell mobilization and acknowledging that angiogenesis is part of the inflammatory response.

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