A novel assay for improved detection of sputum periostin in patients with asthma

• Junya Ono,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shino-Test Corporation Ltd., Sagamihara, Japan

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• Masayuki Takai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shino-Test Corporation Ltd., Sagamihara, Japan

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• Ayami Kamei,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shino-Test Corporation Ltd., Sagamihara, Japan

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• Shoichiro Ohta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan

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• Parameswaran Nair,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, McMaster University and Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Kenji Izuhara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan

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• Sven-Erik Dahlén,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Experimental Asthma and Allergy Research, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Anna James ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Anna.James@ki.se

  Affiliation Experimental Asthma and Allergy Research, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• on behalf of the BIOAIR consortium

  ¶Membership of the BIOAIR Consortium is provided in Acknowledgments.

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