Measuring airway inflammation in asthma: Eosinophils and eosinophilic cationic protein in induced sputum compared with peripheral blood

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 539-544

  Pizzichini, Emilio ^a   Pizzichini, Marcia M M ^a   Efthimiadis, Ann ^a   Dolovich, Jerry ^a   Hargreave, Frederick E ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Asthma; Eosinophilic cationic protein; Eosinophils; Induced sputum

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; METHACHOLINE; SALBUTAMOL; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BRONCHITIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBONUCLEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SPUTUM;

EID: 0030903524     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-6749(97)70082-4     Document Type: Article

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