Smoking in Asthma Is Associated with Elevated Levels of Corticosteroid Resistant Sputum Cytokines—An Exploratory Study

• Mark Spears ,

  * E-mail: mark.spears@glasgow.ac.uk

  Affiliation Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Charles McSharry,

  Affiliation Immunology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Rekha Chaudhuri,

  Affiliation Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Christopher J. Weir,

  Affiliations Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Edinburgh Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Methodology Hub, Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Carl de Wet,

  Affiliation NHS Education for Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Neil C. Thomson

  Affiliation Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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