Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2004)

Fractional Analysis of Th2-Type Cytokines in Sequential Samples of Induced Sputum

  • Rame Taha,
  • Q Hamid,
  • Ron Olivenstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/828936
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
pp. 146 – 150

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of induced sputum in detecting the expression of Th2-type cytokines in asthmatics and have shown that the profile of inflammatory cells in induced sputum differs with time.