Salivary inflammatory mediator profiling and correlation to clinical disease markers in asthma.

There is a need for a readily available, non-invasive source of biomarkers that predict poor asthma control.We sought to determine if there is an association between the salivary inflammatory profile and disease control in children and adults with asthma.In this cross-sectional study, we collected d...

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Main Authors: Frédéric F Little, Diana M Delgado, Philip J Wexler, Frank G Oppenheim, Patricia Mitchell, James A Feldman, David R Walt, Roger D Peng, Elizabeth C Matsui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3883659?pdf=render