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Animal Models of Experimental Asthma

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Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases

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4.5 Conclusions

Animal models which mimic the hallmarks of human bronchial asthma are urgently needed. Such models provide important insight into the pathophysiology of the disease. However, the phenotype of such models must be carefully assessed. Most of the models currently available reflect the stage of acute asthmatic responses with airway inflammation, airway hyperresponsiveness, and sometimes mucus production. However, bronchial asthma represents a chronic disease with chronic and persistent airway inflammation, involvement of the smaller airways, structural changes within and beneath mucosal tissues, and persistent airway obstruction. Advances have been made in further developing models which mimic this phenotype much more closely. These models are particularly relevant in terms of developing novel therapeutic approaches for immuno-intervention in this complex disease. In the future it will be necessary to develop preventive strategies as well as strategies which specifically and sufficiently interfere in structural changes of the airways, since none of the currently available therapies are able to prevent or stop the beginning of airway remodeling.

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Wegmann, M., Renz, H. (2005). Animal Models of Experimental Asthma. In: Zollner, T., Renz, H., Asadullah, K. (eds) Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases. Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26811-1_4

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