Measurement of inflammatory indices in induced sputum: Effects of selection of sputum to minimize salivary contamination

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1174-1180

  Pizzichini, E ^a   Pizzichini, M M M ^a   Efthimiadis, A ^a   Hargreave, F E ^a   Dolovich, J ^a,b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; sputum cell counts; sputum eosinophilic cationic protein; sputum induction

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SAMPLING; SPUTUM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

EID: 0030037376     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.96.09061174     Document Type: Article

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