The value of blood cytokines and chemokines in assessing COPD

Abstract Background Blood biomarkers are increasingly used to stratify high risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients; however, there are fewer studies that have investigated multiple biomarkers and replicated in multiple large well-characterized cohorts of susceptible current and f...

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Main Authors: Eric Bradford, Sean Jacobson, Jason Varasteh, Alejandro P. Comellas, Prescott Woodruff, Wanda O’Neal, Dawn L. DeMeo, Xingnan Li, Victor Kim, Michael Cho, Peter J. Castaldi, Craig Hersh, Edwin K. Silverman, James D. Crapo, Katerina Kechris, Russell P. Bowler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Respiratory Research
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-017-0662-2