Nasal Lavage Fluid
Local Allergic Rhinitis in Pediatric Patients: is IgE Dosage in Nasal Lavage Fluid a Usefull Diagnostic Method in Children?
... the nasal provocation test that is not everywhere avalaible and difficult to apply in ...the nasal lavage fluid IgE as a biomarker of LAR in ...to nasal lavage using 2 ml/nostril ...
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Psoriasin, one of several new proteins identified in nasal lavage fluid from allergic and non-allergic individuals using 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry
... Combining 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) with mass spectrometry (MS) have recently emerged as a method for identifying proteins in different biological samples. In short, proteins are separated in the first ...
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Clara cell protein in nasal lavage fluid and nasal nitric oxide - biomarkers with anti-inflammatory properties in allergic rhinitis
... in nasal lavage fluid [NLF] [4], only a few studies on nasal levels have been ...between nasal CC16 levels and symptoms and signs of rhinitis were observed after allergen-challenge ...
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Expression of Toll-like Receptor 9 in nose, peripheral blood and bone marrow during symptomatic allergic rhinitis
... and nasal lavage fluid were obtained from 11 patients with symptomatic allergic rhinitis during either the birch pollen (5 patients) or the grass pollen season (6 ...sneezing, nasal secretion ...
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Clinical and biochemical effects of a combination botanical product (ClearGuard™) for allergy: a pilot randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial
... While the combination was shown to have selected effects upon allergic pathophysiology, we are unable to deter- mine which of the three components contributed most to these effects. Our choice of botanical substances for ...
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Local cytokines and clinical symptoms in children with allergic rhinitis after different treatments
... in nasal lavage fluid from children with allergic rhinitis after different types of pharmacologic treatment (mometasone, montelukast, or ...weeks: nasal corticosteroid (mometasone), ...
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Associations of airway inflammation and responsiveness markers in non asthmatic subjects at start of apprenticeship
... Background: Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness (BHR) is considered a hallmark of asthma. Other methods are helpful in epidemiological respiratory health studies including Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FENO) and Eosinophils ...
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Increased Interleukin-6 Levels in Nasal Lavage Samples following Experimental Influenza A Virus Infection
... Previous studies demonstrated a link between viral infec- tions of the upper respiratory tract and the expression of al- lergic disorders in genetically susceptible individuals (5, 8). However, no effect of allergy ...
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Dynamics of soluble and cellular inflammatory markers in nasal lavage obtained from Cystic Fibrosis patients during intravenous antibiotic treatment
... Additionally, no changes in the expression levels of NE, which was detected for the first time in NLF, were observed during the applied therapeutic intervention. Also TNF, MPO, IL-8 and IL-1β remained unchanged during 6 ...
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Sputum and nasal lavage lung-specific biomarkers before and after smoking cessation
... respiratory fluid obtained from the nose and induced sputum for lung-specific ...chose nasal lavage fluid and sputum because they are easy, non-invasive methods that additionally contain a ...
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Presence of Respiratory Viruses in Middle Ear Fluids and Nasal Wash Specimens From Children With Acute Otitis Media
... Presence of Viruses in Middle Ear Fluid of Patients With Acute Otitis Media in Relation to Viruses in Nasal Lavage Fluid. Virus Middle %[r] ...
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High Mycoplasma pneumoniae loads and persistent long term Mycoplasma pneumoniae DNA in lower airway associated with severity of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
... persecretion have been reported in MPP [5, 6]. However some patients received timely treatment with sensitive anti- biotics such as moxifloxacin, corticosteroid, and bronchos- copy lavage therapy (BLT), AO was ...
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Diagnostic performance of measuring antibodies to the glycopeptidolipid core antigen specific to Mycobacterium avium complex in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a cross sectional observational study
... We defined MAC-PD according to the 2007 diagnostic criteria for NTM lung disease proposed by the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America [1]. Both of the following criteria had to be met ...
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The Ionic Composition of Nasal Fluid and Its Function
... of nasal fluid and this accounts for the fact that there is often disagreement between different reports in the ...the nasal fluid, the concentration of its constituents increases over ...of ...
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Angiopoietin-1 enhances neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro and migration in vivo through interaction with CD18 and release of CCL4
... ing in an 85% reduction in the number of macrophage/monocytes measured by peritoneal lavage (Fig. 4A and Supplementary Fig. S3). This effect was specific to tissue macrophages and no effect on circulating ...
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Detection of tissue kallikrein in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of asthmatic subjects
... BAL fluid correlated with the presence of kininogenase activity (P = ...BAL fluid kininogenase (a dominant 65,000-mol wt fragment), and synthetic inhibitor profile (phe-phe- arg-CH2Cl and ...
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Use of nested PCR for the detection of trichomonads in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... between 2017 and 2018 and were analyzed by investiga- tors blinded to the clinical data. These BALF samples were obtained by fibre-optic bronchoscopy. When using bronchoscopy for alveolar lavage, oral contact is ...
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Inflammatory and transcriptional roles of poly (ADP ribose) polymerase in ventilator induced lung injury
... bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) subgroup (n = 6) for myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity assay and measurements of inflammatory cytokine concentration and nitric oxide (NO) metabolites in BAL fluid (BALF); and (c) ...
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Effect of spontaneous breathing on ventilator induced lung injury in mechanically ventilated healthy rabbits: a randomized, controlled, experimental study
... bronchoalveolar lavage; BALF: bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; BIPAP: biphasic positive airway pressure; BP: blood pressure; CV: control ventilation; CPAP: continuous positive airway pressure; Cs: ...
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Investigation of glucocorticoid and local immunological function in tuberculosis and inflammation
... 1995). It seems to to drive the immune response towards a Th2 cytokine profile (Fischer and Konig 1991; Wu, Sarfati et al. 1991; Guida, O'Hehir et al. 1994; Padgett, Sheridan et al. 1995; Hemandez-Pando, de la Luz ...