Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and, in the latter part of the 20th century, reached epidemic proportions. Asthma is generally believed to result from gene-environment ...

† ‡ † Department of Chemistry and ‡ The Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials Research (CAMBR), The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street N., London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 § ...