Does chronic aspiration shift the immune response from adaptive immunity to innate immunity in a murine model of asthma?
These data provide support for the hypothesis that the clinical association between asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) does not involve an exacerbation of asthma by GERD-associated aspiration of gastric fluid, but may cause immune reactions unrelated to the asthma pathology.
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