“…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;Deng et al, 2019). BMT is associated with duration of inflammation independent of tissue eosinophilia (Kountakis et al, 2004;Kuhar et al, 2017).…”