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Published in final edited form as: Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2011 Jun;(159):3–40.

Table 9.

Induced Sputum Protein Level and NEP Activity in Human Subjects Before and After Exposure to DEE

	Total protein (µg/µL)		NEP (nmol/µ protein/min)

	Baseline	After DEE Exposure	Baseline	After DEE Exposure
	1.05	1.07	0.364	0.369
	0.66	0.99	0.445	0.431
	1.00	0.97	0.436	0.507
	1.27	1.21	0.258	0.465
	0.41	0.84	0.395	0.399
	0.56	0.43	0.294	0.558
	0.82	1.13	0.413	0.272
	1.16	0.79	0.159	0.382
	0.74	0.92	0.289	0.332
	0.94	1.00	0.164	0.324
	0.41	0.32	0.115	0.320
Mean	0.82	0.88	0.303	0.396
SEM	0.09	0.08	0.036	0.026
P value^a		0.42		0.035

^a

P values based on a two-tailed, paired sample t test (N = 11).