Assessment of severity of bronchial asthma by studying new markers: transforming growth factor-β1 and chitinase-3-like-1

• Main Authors: Abdelwahab M Lotfy (Author), Farag Khalil (Author), Hendawy Zidan (Author), Mahmoud Hadad (Author), Mahmoud A Elsayed (Author), Mohammad M Al-Sayyad (Author), Nagwa A.E. Mohamed (Author), Essam Abouelyazed (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aim The aim of this work was to look for non-invasive biomarkers that may enable us to assess asthma severity, as a surrogate for the invasive bronchial mucosa biopsy, by studying TGF-β1 and YKL-40. Objectives TGF-β1 is used as biomarkers in the pathogenesis, prediction and follow up of asthma sever...