气道平滑肌细胞在哮喘气道重塑中的作用

气道重塑是气道慢性炎症的结果,包括气道壁增厚和基质沉积、胶原沉积、上皮下纤维化、平滑肌增生和肥大、肌成纤维细胞增殖及黏液腺、杯状细胞化生及增生、上皮下网状层增厚、微血管生成等病理改变.在这些病理变化中,气道平滑肌的改变被认为是导致气道高反应性和哮喘加重的重要因素.有很多因素导致气道平滑肌增生及肥大,如炎症介质、生长因子、细胞因子、细胞外基质蛋白和遗传因子等.最近的研究揭示气道平滑肌也是炎症介质的重要来源.建议在哮喘发病早期应用激素吸入治疗.

The effect of airway smooth muscle cell on asthma airway remodeling

Airway remodeling is the result of chronic inflammation, which including airway wall thickening, matrix and collagen deposition, epithelial hyperplasia and fibrosis, smooth proliferation and hypertrophy,fibroblast proliferation, and mucus glands and goblet cell proliferation, micrangium generation and other pathological changes. Airway smooth muscle change is known as the reason of airway hyper - responsiveness and asthma aggravating. There are many factors which can induce airway smooth muscle hypertrophy and proliferation, such as inflammation, cytokines,extracellular matrix and genetic factors. In addition, recent researches reveal the airway smooth muscle is also an important source of inflammation. In this paper the latest opinion of the role of asthma airway smooth muscle in the airway remodeling were elaborated,and inhale hormone earlier was suggested.