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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Main Authors: Adèle Lo Tam Loi, Susan Hoonhorst, Corneli van Aalst, Jeroen Langereis, Vera Kamp, Simone Sluis-Eising, Nick ten Hacken, Jan-Willem Lammers, Leo Koenderman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:Respiratory Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-017-0586-x