*This is table 2 from the Barbato’s and colleagues study titled: Airway inflammation in childhood asthma.

*Notice the decreased transforming growth factor receptor 2. This was a statistically significant decrease p <.05 when compared to the control group children without asthma. Notice that the TGF cells were not significantly different among the 3 groups. So even though the asthmatic children were found to have increased number of eosinophils and thickened basement membranes when compared to the non asthmatic children, these findings were not significantly correlated to increased amounts of TGF cells.