Association of Lung Inflammatory Cells with Small Airways Function and Exhaled Breath Markers in Smokers – Is There a Specific Role for Mast Cells?

• Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner ,

  * E-mail: yvonne.nussbaumer@hispeed.ch

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Jan Stolk,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Luiz F. Ferraz da Silva,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sao Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Annemarie van Schadewijk,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Ronald C. de Jeu,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Frans A. Prins,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Thais Mauad,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sao Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Klaus F. Rabe,

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands, Center for Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, Grosshansdorf Hospital, Grosshansdorf, Germany

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• Pieter S. Hiemstra

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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