Periostin concentration in exhaled breath condensate in children with mild asthma.
Patrycja Nejman-GryzKatarzyna GórskaKatarzyna KrenkeJoanna PeradzyńskaMagdalena Paplińska-GorycaMarek KulusRafał KrenkePublished in: The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma (2019)
In children with mild asthma, periostin may be measured not only in serum but also in EBC. The low periostin level in patients with mild asthma and lack of difference between asthmatic subjects and controls indicate that EBC periostin may not be useful as an asthma biomarker in this group.