TY - JOUR JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 334 LP - 334 DO - 10.1183/09031936.04.00049604a VL - 24 IS - 2 AU - A.R. Leff Y1 - 2004/08/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/24/2/334.abstract N2 - From the authors: We thank S. Hart for some important observations about our paper 1, and we concur that while we have postulated that the effect obtained with fluticasone could be related to apoptosis as one possible mechanism, we have not established the initiating mechanism of the interaction between β2‐adrenoceptor activation and flucticasone. In a prior publication, we used TUNEL assay 2, which showed no effect on apoptosis at 24 h for eosinophils incubated in an identical manner, as for the study in the current paper. Annexin‐I … ER -