donna decker

Abstract Rationale: The lung is a unique immunological niche with diverse immune cell types. The effects of stimulation through innate and adaptive immune receptors on human lung immune cells has largely been extrapolated from studies of blood immune cells. While multiple immune cell types and many genes have been implicated as contributing to asthma, the dynamics of these in human lung immune cells following activation will yield insights into asthma pathogenesis and lung immunity more broadly.

The refrain trills on. You plug your ears but cannot not overhear: “They get their mortgages paid, you know, those women…” You had to hear that. You. They don’t know what you did not tell for 15 years. They do not know so much, anything really. My fight, Sister(s), is nearly gone. I feel myself folding. CNN is a crucible—can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Then a young man, a student I taught years ago, texts me: “How is your sister doing?

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