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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Thorax. 2012 Sep 26;67(12):1061–1066. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201634

Table 2.

Bronchoalveolar lavage eotaxin levels by severity

Normal Mild Mild/mod+ICS Severe Overall p
Eotaxin-2 mRNA/GAPDH (n=42)     19 (1.9–58.7)     24.7 (4.6–310.9) 73.5 (3.9–502.2) 10.3 (3.4–47.5) 0.83
Eotaxin-2 cell lysate protein (pg/million cells) (n=19) 1178 (135–3134)   816 (370–3263) 795 (456–1195) 511 (315–2670) 0.81
Eotaxin-2 BAL fluid (pg/ml) (n=75)   309 (97–654)   221 (41–425) 196 (37–435)   77 (30–222) 0.046
Eotaxin-1 mRNA/GAPDH (n=40) 0.0001 (0–0.04) 0.0001 (0–0.1)     0 (0–0.045)     0 (0–0.0001) 0.62
Eotaxin-3 mRNA/GAPDH (n=40) 0.0001 (0–0.06) 0.0001 (0–0.15) 0.42 (0–0.11) 0.05 (0.15–0.25) 0.14

All values are median (25th–75th percentiles).

BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; GAPDH, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.