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Antonella Di Franco

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1 Low sputum eosinophils predict the lack of response to beclomethasone in symptomatic asthmatic patients. Chest 2006 1.86
2 Ozone exposure increases eosinophilic airway response induced by previous allergen challenge. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002 1.06
3 Profiles of proinflammatory cytokines in sputum from different groups of severe asthmatic patients. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2006 0.91
4 Asthma control test (ACT): comparison with clinical, functional, and biological markers of asthma control. J Asthma 2012 0.89
5 Induced sputum is a reproducible method to assess airway inflammation in asthma. Mediators Inflamm 2002 0.86
6 Effects of oral prednisone on sputum eosinophils and cytokines in patients with severe refractory asthma. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2010 0.82
7 Beclomethasone dipropionate blunts allergen-induced early increase in urinary LTE4. Eur J Clin Invest 2010 0.80
8 Increase in markers of airway inflammation after ozone exposure can be observed also in stable treated asthmatics with minimal functional response to ozone. Respir Res 2010 0.80
9 Prednisone blunts airway neutrophilic inflammatory response due to ozone exposure in asthmatic subjects. Respiration 2006 0.79
10 Transient sputum eosinophilia may occur over time in non-eosinophilic asthma and this is not prevented by salmeterol. Respirology 2012 0.79
11 Magnitude of late asthmatic response to allergen in relation to baseline and allergen-induced sputum eosinophilia in mild asthmatic patients. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2008 0.77
12 Can Sputum Eosinophilia Be a Constant Feature in Severe Refractory Asthmatics? A 3-Year Longitudinal Study. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2015 0.75
13 Tolerance to the protective effect of salmeterol in mild untreated asthmatics. Pulm Pharmacol Ther 2003 0.75
14 Biological markers in induced sputum of patients with different phenotypes of chronic airway obstruction. Respiration 2008 0.75