Increased expression of acidic mammalian
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Woo Sung Cho; Tae Hoon Kim; Heung Man Lee; Seung Hoon Lee; Sung Ho Lee; Joon Hyu
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objectives/Hypothesis: Acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) has emerged as an important mediator of allergic asthma in both animal models and in humans. Recently, chitotriosidase has been suggested to play a role in innate immunity because of its phagocyticβspecific expression. Thus,