Code
3F013813
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
-
Medical and health sciences
- Immunology
- Immunology
- Immunology
Keywords
exacerbation
asthma
mouse model
Inflammation
alveolar macrophages
Project description
In a mouse model of asthma, resident alveolar macrophages showed an increased inflammatory reactivity upon post-infection of the asthmatic lung. This project aims to elucidate the mechanism underlying the altered macrophage innate functionality and hereby to enable interference with asthma exacerbation.