IL17A and asthma: Although the numbers are small, further analysis of the calcitriol-treated patients with SR asthma showed that the patients whose improvement in lung function was in the upper quartile in response to the second course of oral prednisolone were those whose cells produced the highest mean quantities of IL-13 and the lowest mean quantities of IL-17A (see Fig E4 in this article's Online Repository at www.jacionline.org).