Bronchial hyper-responsiveness to hypertonic saline and blood eosinophilic markers in 8-13-year-old schoolchildren

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1226-1231

  De Meer, G ^a   Postma, D S ^b   Janssen, N A H ^a   De Jongste, J C ^c   Brunekreef, B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic BHR; Atopy; Blood eosinophils; Serum ECP; Symptomatic BHR

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ATOPY; BLOOD LEVEL; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 4143144128     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.02017.x     Document Type: Review

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