Measurement of C-reactive protein, procalcitonin and neutrophil elastase in saliva of COPD patients and healthy controls: correlation to self-reported wellbeing parameters

BACKGROUND: Saliva is increasingly promoted as an alternative diagnostic bio-sample to blood; however its role in respiratory disease requires elucidation. Our aim was to investigate whether C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT) and neutrophil elastase (NE) could be measured in unstimulated...

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Autores principales: Patel, Neil, Belcher, John, Thorpe, Gary, Forsyth, Nicholas R, Spiteri, Monica A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4451749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26018813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-015-0219-1

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