IMR Press / FBS / Volume 2 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.2741/S113

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Regulation of T cells in airway disease by beta-agonist
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1 Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

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Front. Biosci. (Schol Ed) 2010, 2(3), 969–979; https://doi.org/10.2741/S113
Published: 1 June 2010
Abstract

It is widely recognized that Th2 cytokines derived from T cells play a major role in the development of allergic lung inflammation that causes most asthma. Beta-agonists are important rescue and maintenance therapies for asthma, yet our understanding of beta-agonist effects on T cell biology is surprisingly poor. Recent studies using both cell culture and more integrative models are beginning to reveal beta-agonist regulation of T cell signaling and function that may be important in the pathogenesis and treatment of asthma and possibly other inflammatory diseases. Here we provide a comprehensive review of the literature concerning beta-agonist effects on T cells, and discuss the relevance of emerging paradigms of beta-adrenergic receptor signaling to T cell function.

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