Rogue lung cells solve asthma mysteries

Dr John Faul is leading an Irish research project that shows there is a build up of a certain type of cells in the lungs of people who have asthma, writes Sheila O'Kelly

THERE IS a large number of a particular type of inflammatory cells in the lungs of people who have asthma, but not in people who don't. This has been discovered by Dr John Faul who is consultant physician in respiratory medicine at Connolly Hospital, Blancharstown. This cell is called the invariant Natural Killer T cell (iNKT).

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