Comparative study of periostin expression in different respiratory samples in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
CONCLUSIONS Periostin may be detected not only in serum, IS, and airway tissue samples, but also in EBC and BALF. EBC periostin levels and tissue periostin expression are higher in patients with asthma than in those with COPD. EBC periostin levels may serve as a potential surrogate marker for tissue periostin expression.
PMID: 26895432 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Pol Arch Med Wewn Source Type: research
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