“…The involvement of adenosine in asthma has been the subject of considerable attention over the years, after it was shown that it produced powerful bronchoconstriction in asthma, although it had little effect in healthy lungs; xanthines, antagonists of adenosine receptors, were widely used for treatment of asthma (for reviews, see Persson, 1982;Kawasaki et al, 1983;Holgate et al, 1987Holgate et al, , 1990Feoktistov and Biaggioni, 1996;Fozard and Hannon, 2000;Meade et al, 2001;Fozard and McCarthy, 2002;Holgate, 2002Holgate, , 2005Polosa et al, 2002;Fozard, 2003;Lee et al, 2003;Livingston et al, 2004;Caruso et al, 2006Caruso et al, , 2009Russo et al, 2006;Brown et al, 2008b;Wilson, 2008). It was suggested that the hyper-responsive effects of adenosine in isolated bronchi was due to indirect actions by liberation of histamine and leukotrienes (Björck et al, 1992).…”