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Is it possible to claim or refute sputum eosinophils ≥ 3% in asthmatics with sufficient accuracy using biomarkers?

The concept of asthma inflammatory phenotypes has proved to be important in predicting response to inhaled corticosteroids. Induced sputum, which has been pivotal in the development of the concept of inflammatory phenotypes, is however not widely available. Several studies have proposed to use surro...

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Autores principales: Demarche, Sophie F., Schleich, Florence N., Paulus, Virginie A., Henket, Monique A., Van Hees, Thierry J., Louis, Renaud E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5496313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28673351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0615-9