Asthma and lower airway diseaseCorticosteroid-resistant asthma is associated with classical antimicrobial activation of airway macrophages
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Subjects
Patients with a diagnosis of asthma according to American Thoracic Society criteria9 were selected for evaluation. Asthmatic subjects had a baseline FEV1 percent predicted of 55% to 85% of predicted value, a β2-adrenergic response of 12% or greater of baseline FEV1 percent predicted, and/or a methacholine PC20 value of 8 mg/mL or less. Asthmatic patients were further subdivided into those with CR or CS asthma based on their response to steroids. The definition was based on change in FEV1
Patient characteristics
Eighteen asthmatic subjects (10 with CR asthma and 8 with CS asthma) were recruited for this study and underwent bronchoscopy with collection of BAL fluid. Patients were divided into CR and CS groups based on FEV1 percent predicted responses after a 1-week course of oral prednisone. As shown in Table E1 (available in this article's Online Repository at www.jacionline.org), patients in the CR group did not show any improvement in prebronchodilator FEV1 percent predicted after exposure to
Discussion
The current study determined gene expression profiles of BAL cells collected from subjects with CR asthma and subjects with CS asthma. As demonstrated by activation of multiple proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines accompanied by activation of LPS signaling pathways, BAL macrophages were remarkably more skewed toward a proinflammatory, antimicrobial, classically activated phenotype in subjects with CR asthma compared with subjects with CS asthma. These data gathered by means of gene
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Supported by National Institutes of Health grants AI070140 and HL37260, General Clinical Research Center grant MO1 RR00051 from the Division of Research Resources, the Edelstein Family Chair in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, and the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: R. J. Martin has received honoraria from Schering-Plough, Genentech/Novartis, Teva, and GlaxoSmithKline and has received grants from Altana (NycoMed) and GlaxoSmithKline. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.
Data deposition footnote: The microarray data reported in this article have been deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus database at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo (accession no. GSE7368).