MYC and infection: Following IAV H1N1 infection, expression of c-Myc reduced compared with baseline; 0 vs 6 h (P = 0.011), 0 vs 8 h (P = 0.008) and 0 vs 24 h (P = 0.003), and remained unchanged during infection (6–24 h) in pBECs from non-asthmatics (Fig. 7a) whereas its expression significantly increased (P = 0.006) in cells from asthmatics at 24 h compared with 6 h (Fig. 7b).