Are sputum eosinophil cationic protein and eosinophils differently associated with clinical and functional findings of asthma?
Clinical & Experimental Allergy2013Vol. 44(5), pp. 673–680
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Silvana Cianchetti, Elena Bacci, L. Ruocco, T. Pavia, M.L. Bartoli, Cristina Cardini, Francesco Costa, A. Di Franco, Laura Malagrinò, Federica Novelli, Barbara Vagaggini, Alessandro Celi, Federico L. Dente, Pier Luigi Paggiaro
Abstract
Both sputum eosinophils and ECP are weakly related to clinical markers of asthma severity. However, ECP was more closely related to lung function parameters than eosinophil counts.
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