Johns Hopkins University
The goal of this laboratory study is the examine the effect of mepolizumab drug on the health and function of the cells lining the human nasal airways in vitro cell culture derived from patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis. The main questions the study aims to study are: 1. To see what mepolizumab does to suppress inflammation of the human cells. 2. To see what mepolizumab does to maintain barrier integrity of epithelial cells
The investigators hypothesize that anti-IL5 treatment will promote epithelial cell function by inhibition of Type 1 and innate immune mediated inflammation and epithelial-mesenchymal transition resulting from IL5 induction. Aim 1. To test the hypothesis that anti-IL5 therapy results in inhibition of epithelial cell dysfunction including epithelial derived inflammatory responses and barrier dysfunction, the investigators will examine the effect of in vitro anti-IL5 mepolizumab exposure of human primary nasal epithelial cells from chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis on Type 1, Type 2 an…
Inclusion Criteria: * (1) sinonasal inflammation for greater than 12 weeks which include at least 2 of the following symptoms: nasal obstruction/congestion, nasal discharge (anterior or posterior), facial pressure/pain, reduction of sense of smell. * (2) confirmation of the clinical symptoms by: (2a) CT scan evidence of paranasal sinus mucosal inflammation, and/or (2b) endoscopic exam evidence of purulence from the sinuses or ostiomeatal complex; and * (3) presence of nasal polyps seen on endoscopic exam or sinus CT scan. Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. Children under the age of 18 will be exclud…
In vitro exposure of human nasal epithelial cells to mepolizumab
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