Exhaled nitric oxide in young, symptomatic patients with atopic asthma receiving nebulized budesonide therapy

2010 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 400-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel J. Lanz ◽  
Angela P. Bautista ◽  
Natalia M. Peyrou ◽  
Stefania Prendes
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.L.M. Ricciardolo ◽  
A. Di Stefano ◽  
M. Silvestri ◽  
A.M. Van Schadewijk ◽  
M. Malerba ◽  
...  

Exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) has been associated with bronchial eosinophilia and with airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in mild stable asthma. We previously demonstrated in a large project that allergen exposure is able to raise FeNO and to worsen AHR to bradykinin. We postulated that allergen-induced increase in FeNO could be related to heightened mucosal eosinophils and AHR to bradykinin in atopic asthma. We performed a new immunohistochemical analysis on bronchial biopsy specimens, previously obtained from the same large project, in order to assess the number of mucosal eosinophils (EG-2+ cell) and other inflammatory cells at 48 hours after diluent and allergen exposures. Inflammatory cell counts were related to FeNO and AHR to BK (expressed as logPD20 bradykinin). In 10 atopic mild asthmatics, we found that the numbers of EG-2+ and CD4+ cells in bronchial submucosa were significantly increased after allergen compared to the respective counts after diluent (p < 0.01). EG-2+ cells in the bronchial submucosa were negatively correlated with logPD20 bradykinin only after allergen challenge (rho = −0.709, p = 0.027). We also found a positive strong correlation between EG-2+ cells and FeNO values in atopic asthmatics at 48 hours after both diluent (rho = 0.746, p = 0.017) and allergen (rho = 0.644, p = 0.049) challenge. FeNO values negatively correlated with responsiveness to bradykinin only after allergen challenge (rho = −0.675, p = 0.039). This study indicates that after allergen exposure heightened level of exhaled NO may reflect augmented airway eosinophilic inflammation and airway responsiveness to bradykinin indicating loss of asthma control.


2019 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
pp. AB104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Ortega ◽  
Mary Fitzgerald ◽  
Nihar Bhakta ◽  
Kartik Raghupathi ◽  
David Singh

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Kaj Korhonen ◽  
Minna Purokivi ◽  
Anne Kotaniemi-Syrjänen ◽  
Tiina M Reijonen ◽  
Mikko Vahteristo ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 810-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio L. M. Ricciardolo ◽  
Michela Silvestri ◽  
Angela Pistorio ◽  
Mariachiara M. Strozzi ◽  
Maria A. Tosca ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 639-648.e8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörgen Syk ◽  
Andrei Malinovschi ◽  
Gunnar Johansson ◽  
Anna-Lena Undén ◽  
Anna Andreasson ◽  
...  

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