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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Immunol. 2015 Jan;15(1):57–65. doi: 10.1038/nri3786

Figure 2. Airway pathology in asthma.

Figure 2

Airway structures in medium-sized healthy airways (part a; a schematic representation is depicted in part c) and in a patient with asthma (part b; a schematic representation is depicted in part d). The airways in asthma show considerable structural remodelling, including goblet cell hyperplasia, subepithelial fibrosis and increases in smooth muscle volume. Figure parts a and b republished with permission of Dove Medical Press, from the Journal of Asthma and Allergy, Clinical update on the use of biomarkers of airway inflammation in the management of asthma, Wadsworth, S., Sin, D. and Dorscheid, D., 4, 2011; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.