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Acute asthma in children: Relationships among CD14 and CC16 genotypes, plasma levels, and severity.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 15 Mar 2006
Martin Andrew C, Laing Ingrid A, Khoo Siew-Kim, Zhang Guicheng, Rueter Kristina, Teoh Laurel, Taheri Shahir, Hayden Catherine M, Geelhoed Gary C, Goldblatt Jack, LeSouëf Peter N
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RATIONALE: The majority of previous studies investigating asthma genetics have focused on cohorts with stable disease and have not defined mechanisms important during acute asthma. CD14 and CC16 each play a key role in biologically important inflammatory pathways and the gene of each has a functional promoter-region polymorphism. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to determine the influence of these...
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