Proteomic profiling of peripheral blood neutrophils identifies two inflammatory phenotypes in stable COPD patients
Abstract Background COPD is a heterogeneous chronic inflammatory disease of the airways and it is well accepted that the GOLD classification does not fully represent the complex clinical manifestations of COPD and this classification therefore is not well suited for phenotyping of individual patient...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-05-01
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Series: | Respiratory Research |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-017-0586-x |