• Epidemiology and Risk Factors
• 41 min
  1. The changing prevalence of asthma

  • Dr. Deborah Jarvis
• 29 min
  2. Recent advances in asthma genetics

  • Prof. Miriam Moffatt
• 35 min
  3. Asthma: an epidemic caused by epigenetics?

  • Prof. David Schwartz
• 30 min
  4. Role of the microbiota in asthma

  • Prof. B. Brett Finlay
• 32 min
  5. Diet and asthma

  • Prof. Lewis Smith
• 43 min
  6. Obesity and asthma

  • Prof. Anne Dixon
• 35 min
  7. Occupational asthma: management beyond the textbooks

  • Prof. Paul Cullinan
• Clinical Phenotypes
• 42 min
  8. The origins of asthma

  • Prof. Peter Sly
• 46 min
  9. Pre-school wheeze

  • Prof. Andrew Bush
• 50 min
  10. Updates on the management of difficult asthma in school-aged children

  • Prof. Andrew Bush
• 24 min
  11. Smoking asthmatics

  • Prof. Neil Thomson
• 27 min
  12. Aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease

  • Prof. Chris Corrigan
• Mechanisms of Asthma
• 48 min
  13. Advances in asthma: airway inflammation

  • Prof. William Busse
• 48 min
  14. The role of mast cells in asthma

  • Prof. Peter Bradding
• 67 min
  15. Dendritic cells in asthma

  • Prof. Bart Lambrecht
• 30 min
  16. The airway smooth muscle in asthma

  • Prof. Judith Black
• 49 min
  17. Role of virus infection in asthma 1

  • Prof. Sebastian Johnston
• 27 min
  18. Role of virus infection in asthma 2

  • Prof. Sebastian Johnston
• 51 min
  19. Severe asthma: characterisation, mechanisms & treatment

  • Prof. Fan Chung
• 46 min
  20. Steroid resistance in asthma: mechanisms and potential therapies

  • Prof. Ian Adcock
• 26 min
  21. Macrophage in asthma

  • Prof. Douglas Robinson
• Diagnosis of Asthma
• 70 min
  22. Physiology of asthma and involvement of small airways

  • Prof. Charles G. Irvin
• 27 min
  23. Induced sputum in asthma

  • Prof. Antonio Spanevello
• 61 min
  24. Advances in asthma: the role of exhaled nitric oxide in the assessment and management of asthma

  • Prof. Robin Taylor
• Therapy and Management
• 41 min
  25. Pulmonary drug delivery

  • Prof. Anthony J. Hickey
• 32 min
  26. The management of chronic asthma

  • Prof. Mark Fitzgerald
• 21 min
  27. Inhaled corticosteroids and beta2-agonists

  • Dr. Omar S. Usmani
• 20 min
  28. Management of "difficult asthma"

  • Prof. Elisabeth Bel
• 47 min
  29. Management of acute exacerbations of asthma

  • Dr. Chris Fanta
• 34 min
  30. Non-pharmacological treatments for asthma

  • Prof. Neil Thomson
• 45 min
  31. Asthma: beyond the prescription

  • Prof. Martyn Partridge
• 45 min
  32. New drugs for asthma

  • Prof. Peter Barnes
• 24 min
  33. Anti-IgE therapy for asthma

  • Dr. Andrew Menzies-Gow
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 45 min
  34. New drugs for asthma

  • Prof. Peter Barnes
• 35 min
  35. Asthma phenotypes in children

  • Prof. Andrew Bush
• 40 min
  36. Steroid resistance in asthma: mechanisms and potential therapies

  • Prof. Ian Adcock
• 42 min
  37. Severe asthma in children

  • Prof. Andrew Bush

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1. Introduction
2. Outline
3. What is asthma?
4. What is asthma? (2)
5. What is asthma? (3)
6. What is asthma? (4)
7. Asthma as a developmental disease
8. Asthma as a developmental disease (2)
9. Respiratory system - embryonic development
10. Normal lung development
11. In utero influences on lung function at birth
12. Adverse in utero exposures
13. Increased collagen deposition in airways
14. Altered lung function
15. In utero exposures
16. In utero exposures (2)
17. Ambient air pollution: somatic growth
18. Ambient air pollution: decrease in lung function
19. Normal immune development
20. Normal immune development (2)
21. Normal immune development (3)
22. Normal immune development (4)
23. Naive T-cell immunological memory development
24. Adverse in utero exposures (2)
25. Delayed IU immune development
26. Delayed postnatal immune maturation
27. Birth cohort study
28. Developmental stage susceptibility
29. Developmental stage susceptibility (2)
30. Early life origins of asthma
31. Early life origins of asthma (2)
32. Early life origins of asthma (3)
33. Tucson children's respiratory study
34. Raine study
35. Raine study (2)
36. Raine study (3)
37. Atopy and wLRI interaction
38. Childhood asthma study
39. Childhood asthma study (2)
40. Childhood asthma study (3)
41. Persistent asthma development scheme
42. Persistent asthma
43. Summary

Topics Covered

• Asthma is a multifactorial condition
• Asthma as a "Syndrome"
• Causes of asthma: genetic and environmental
• Development of asthma
• Growth of respiratory system
• Maturation of the immune system
• Prenatal exposures which cause asthma
• Asthma risk factors
• Considering atopy when assessing asthma risk

Links

Series:

• Advances in Asthma

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Immunology

Therapeutic Areas:

• Immunology & Inflammation
• Respiratory Diseases

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on December 29, 2011

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Peter Sly has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.