Nasal Levels of Antimicrobial Peptides in Allergic Asthma Patients and Healthy Controls: Differences and Effect of a Short 1,25(OH)₂ Vitamin D3 Treatment

• Willemien Thijs ,

  * E-mail: willemienthijs@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Pulmonology, Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

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• Kirsten Janssen,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Annemarie M. van Schadewijk,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Socrates E. Papapoulos,

  Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Saskia le Cessie,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Department of Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Saskia Middeldorp,

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Christian F. Melissant,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

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• Klaus F. Rabe,

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery, Lungen Clinic Grosshansdorf, Grosshansdorf, Germany

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• Pieter S. Hiemstra

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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