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Bronchoalveolar lavage eosinophil cationic protein and interleukin-8 levels in acute asthma and acute bronchiolitis
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- Issue Date
- 2005-05-19
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Citation
- Clin Exp Allergy. 2005 May;35(5):591-7.
- Keywords
- Acute Disease ; Asthma/*metabolism ; Bronchiolitis/*metabolism ; Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/*chemistry/cytology ; Bronchoscopy/methods ; Child, Preschool ; Eosinophil Cationic Protein/*analysis ; Eosinophils/chemistry ; Female ; Humans ; Interleukin-8/*analysis ; Macrophages/chemistry ; Male ; Neutrophils/chemistry
- Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: In this study, we measured the levels of eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) and interleukin (IL)-8 in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from patients with acute asthma and acute bronchiolitis, to determine any similarities or dissimilarities in the profiles of these biochemical markers in the two diseases. METHODS: BAL fluids were obtained from children with acute asthma (n=16), infants with acute bronchiolitis caused by respiratory syncytial virus (n=18), and control subjects (n=14). Children with asthma were selected to be free of viral infection. BAL cell counts and differentials were determined, and ECP and IL-8 levels were measured by radioimmunoassay and ELISA, respectively. RESULTS: ECP levels in BAL fluids were significantly higher in the asthma group than in the bronchiolitis (P<0.01) or control (P<0.0001) groups. However, IL-8 levels were significantly higher in the bronchiolitis group than in the asthma (P<0.01) or control (P<0.001) groups. IL-8 levels in the asthma group and ECP levels in the bronchiolitis group were similar to those of the control group. CONCLUSION: This difference in profiles of ECP and IL-8 in acute asthma and acute bronchiolitis, together with a different inflammatory cell pattern, suggests that the nature of the inflammatory process within the lower respiratory tract may be distinctive in these two diseases.
- ISSN
- 0954-7894 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15898980
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/22627
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