3-1PS Asthma Phenotypes Shaped by Innate and Adaptive Immunity

Monday, 5 December 2011: 08:35 - 09:00
Costa Maya (Cancún Center)

Dale Umetsu, MD, PhD , Children's Hosp Boston, Harvard Med Schl

Learning Objectives:
1.  Appreciate the heterogeneity in asthma, and the characteristics of distinct asthma phenotypes.

 

 

2.  Understand the differences in the pathogenesis of allergen-induced versus virus-induced asthma.

3.  Understand the different roles of allergen-specific adaptive Th2 cells versus innate lymphoid cells in asthma.