The influence of radiographic phenotype and smoking status on peripheral blood biomarker patterns in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

BACKGROUND:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by both airway remodeling and parenchymal destruction. The identification of unique biomarker patterns associated with airway dominant versus parenchymal dominant patterns would support the existence of unique phenotypes repres...

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Main Authors: Jessica M Bon, Joseph K Leader, Joel L Weissfeld, Harvey O Coxson, Bin Zheng, Robert A Branch, Venkateswarlu Kondragunta, Janet S Lee, Yingze Zhang, Augustine M K Choi, Anna E Lokshin, Naftali Kaminski, David Gur, Frank C Sciurba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2730536?pdf=render