Respiratory metabolites in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and exhaled breath condensate (EBC) can differentiate horses affected by severe equine asthma from healthy horses

Abstract Background The use of an untargeted metabolomic approach to investigate biofluids of respiratory origin is of increasing interest in human and veterinary lung research. Considering the high incidence of equine asthma (> 14%) within horse population and the importance of this animal model...

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Main Authors: Marilena Bazzano, Luca Laghi, Chenglin Zhu, Gian Enrico Magi, Beniamino Tesei, Fulvio Laus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Veterinary Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12917-020-02446-9