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Serum IL-5 and IL-13 consistently serve as the best predictors for the blood eosinophilia phenotype in adult asthmatics.
Allergy - 1 Aug 2016
Agache I, Strasser D S, Klenk A, Agache C, Farine H, Ciobanu C, Groenen P M A, Akdis C A
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BACKGROUND: Molecular biomarkers that identify the phenotype of blood eosinophilia were evaluated in adult asthmatics, and their relationship with clinically significant asthma outcomes was assessed. Patients were clustered based on their molecular fingerprint. METHODS: At inclusion, 64 patients were evaluated for phenotypic traits, sputum and blood eosinophilia, exhaled NO, serum cytokines and chemokines, total...
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