ATS 2016 Posters by RITMS | Mar 10, 2016 | News Christie Ojiaku | TGF-ß1 Evokes Human Airway Smooth Muscle Shortening and Hyperresponsiveness: A New Job Description? Edwin Yoo | Elevated Histone H3K27 Methylation Mediates Intrinsic Hypercontractility in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells From Subjects with Fatal Asthma. Cynthia Koziol-White | A narrow spectrum kinase inhibitor, RV1729, induces bronchodilation of human small airways and rescues agonist-induced desensitization of the ß2adrenoreceptor(ß2AR). Joseph Jude | Toxicants, salicylic acid and toluene diisocyanate, enhance carbachol-induced bronchoconstrictionin human precision-cut lung slices (hPCLS).