ABL1 and asthma: 2007; Wang et al. 2013a,b, 2014a; Chen and Tang 2014; Cleary et al. 2014). In addition, c-Abl has been implicated in the pathogenesis of airway remodeling, a key feature of asthma (Rhee et al. 2011; Cleary et al. 2013). Furthermore, c-Abl expression is altered in an animal model of asthma and in asthmatic airway smooth muscle cells (Cleary et al. 2013).