Validation of assays for inflammatory mediators in sputum
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Validation of assays for inflammatory mediators in sputum.
Commercially available immune assays are being used with increasing frequency in the study of lung inflammation. However, their performance in complex biological fluids is rarely assessed. The authors wished to assess their reliability to determine whether the results obtained in sputum samples can be easily interpreted. The reproducibility of several such assays was therefore determined togeth...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3003.2000.15d24.x