Relationship between blood and bronchial submucosal eosinophilia and reticular basement membrane thickening in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A sputum eosinophilia is observed in 10–40% of COPD subjects. The blood eosinophil count is a biomarker of sputum eosinophilia, but whether it is associated with bronchial submucosal eosinophils is unclear. In 20 COPD subjects and 21 controls we assessed the number of bronchial submucosal eosinophil...

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Autores principales: Eltboli, Osama, Mistry, Vijay, Barker, Bethan, Brightling, Chris E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
Materias:
Scientific Letters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25645275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/resp.12475

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25645275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/resp.12475

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