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Systemic upregulation of neutrophil α-defensins and serine proteases in neutrophilic asthma.
Thorax - 1 Nov 2011
Baines Katherine J, Simpson Jodie L, Wood Lisa G, Scott Rodney J, Gibson Peter G
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BACKGROUND: The well-characterised airway inflammatory phenotypes of asthma include eosinophilic, neutrophilic, mixed eosinophilic/neutrophilic and paucigranulocytic asthma, identified based on the proportion of sputum granulocytes. Systemic inflammation is now recognised as an important part of...
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