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ReviewExpert review of respiratory medicine2025

Interactions between epithelial mesenchymal plasticity, barrier dysfunction and innate immune pathways shape the genesis of allergic airway disease.

Allan R Brasier

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Review in Expert review of respiratory medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Allan R BrasierSchool of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5012-4090

Funding

University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational ResearchUL1TR002373 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI ELIZABETH S BURNSIDE, Allan R. Brasier · 2017 to 2026
$75.9M
Virus, Tissue Culture and ImmunoassayP01AI062885 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI BOLDOGH, ISTVAN STEVEN · 2005 to 2022
$23.9M
Epigenetic Mechanism Reprogramming Mucosal Anti-viral Immunity in Allergic AsthmaU01AI136994 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BRASIER, ALLAN R., CALHOUN, WILLIAM J · 2019 to 2023
$3.4M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002373NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI062885NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI136994
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionIn genetically predisposed individuals, exposure to aeroallergens and infections from RNA viruses shape epithelial barrier function, leading to Allergic Asthma (AA). Here, activated pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in lower airway sentinel cells signal epithelial injury-repair pathways leading to cell-state changes [epithelial mesenchymal plasticity (EMP)], barrier disruption and sensitization. AREAS COVERED: 1. Characteristics of sentinel epithelial cells of the bronchoalveolar junction, 2. The effect of aeroallergens on epithelial PRRs, 3. Role of tight junctions (TJs) in barrier function and how aeroallergens disrupt their function, 4. Induction of mucosal TGF autocrine loops activating type-2 innate lymphoid cells (ICL2s) leading to Th2 polarization, 5. How respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) directs goblet cell hyperplasia, and 6. Coupling of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress to metabolic adaptations and effects on EXPERT OPINION: When aeroallergens or viral infections activate innate immunity in sentinel cells of the bronchoalveolar junction, normal barrier function is disrupted, promoting chronic inflammation and Th2 responses. An improved mechanistic understanding of how activated PRRs induce EMP couples with TJ disruption, metabolic reprogramming and ECM deposition provides new biologically validated targets to restore barrier function, reduce sensitization, and remodeling in AA.

Indexed as

AsthmaEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionImmunity, InnateRespiratory HypersensitivityRespiratory MucosaAllergensAnimalsCell PlasticityHumansReceptors, Pattern RecognitionSignal TransductionTight JunctionsAllergensReceptors, Pattern RecognitionAllergic asthmaepithelial barrierepithelial plasticityhexosamine biosynthesisinnate inflammationunfolded protein response

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PMID39745473
PMCPMC11757041

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