Cytokine profiles in asthma families depend on age and phenotype.

BACKGROUND: Circulating cytokine patterns may be relevant for the diagnosis of asthma, for the discrimination of certain phenotypes, and prognostic factors for exacerbation of disease. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In this study we investigated serum samples from 944 individuals of 218 asthma-affe...

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Main Authors: Katrin Pukelsheim, Tobias Stoeger, David Kutschke, Koustav Ganguly, Matthias Wjst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3001464?pdf=render