“…Periostin promotes adhesion and migration of epithelial cells and is associated with CRSwNP (Ishida et al, 2012;Ohta et al, 2014;Laury et al, 2015;Milonski et al, 2015;Shiono et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015;Ebenezer et al, 2017;Xu et al, 2017;Wei et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2018;Lehmann et al, 2019) and asthma (Carpagnano et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2018). The EMT process is driven by an array of factors such as WNT, reactive oxygen species, proteases, HIF1, IL-13 Epiregulin, Oncostatin M, and IL-1 (Oyer et al, 2013;Batzakakis et al, 2014;Schleimer, 2017;Aazami et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2018;Tomaszewska et al, 2019). CRSwNP patients have altered expression levels of EMT related factors, such as MMP-1 (Malinsky et al, 2013;Homma et al, 2017), MMP-2 (Malinsky et al, 2013), TIMP-1 (Wang et al, 2012;Muluk et al, 2015), MMP-7 (Yang et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2018), MMP-9 (Wang et al, 2012;Malinsky et al, 2013;Yeo et al, 2013;Li et al, 2015;Muluk et al, 2015;Chen et al, 2018;Suzuki et al, 2018;Xiang et al, 2019), TIMP-2 (Li et al, 2015) E-cadherin (Hupin et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2018;…”