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Induced sputum is a reproducible method to assess airway inflammation in asthma.

To evaluate the reproducibility of induced sputum analysis, and to estimate the sample size required to obtained reliable results, sputum was induced by hypertonic saline inhalation in 29 asthmatic subjects on two different days. The whole sample method was used for analysis, and inflammatory cells...

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Autores principales: Bacci, Elena, Cianchetti, Silvana, Carnevali, Stefano, Bartoli, Maria Laura, Dente, Federico L, Di Franco, Antonella, Giannini, Daniele, Vagaggini, Barbara, Paggiaro, Pier Luigi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12467521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09629350210000015692