Chronic asthma study offers hope (BBC)

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Scientists believe they have discovered a key component in the development of chronic asthma, pointing the way to new treatments.

As asthma progresses, the airways are changed or remodelled and become more muscular and reactive to allergens.

Critical to this process is a cellular pump in the muscles called SERCA2, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.

Ultimately drugs acting on SERCA2 might stop lung damage, the UK experts hope.

Professor Tak Lee, of King's College London, who led the research, said: "It is widely believed that this remodelling in asthma is in large part responsible for the chronicity of the disease.
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[InvisibleTouch]

1. Mine all but went away after 30+ years...

...once I stopped drinking cow's milk. Whatever remodelling there was of my lungs, was apparently reversible.

[uppityperson]

2. That would be wonderful as there are many people who suffer from asthma