Increased serum IL-17 is an independent risk factor for severe asthma

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1131-1137

  Agache, Ioana ^a   Ciobanu, Cristina ^b   Agache, Costel ^b   Anghel, Mariana ^c  

^a TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^b Theramed Medical Center   (Romania)

^c Brasov County Hospital   (Romania)

Author keywords

IL 17; Risk factors; Severe asthma

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHINOSINUSITIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-17; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953913216     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.02.018     Document Type: Article

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