Summary
Bronchial asthma is a disease which changes over the course of a lifetime and is dependent on viruses, triggers and allergens in the environment as well as immune and hormonal cycle.
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Summary
Background. Asthma is a chronic re spiratory disease with heterogeneous pathogenesis and etiology. For better diagnostic it is important to pay attention to new laboratory markers for asthma. YKL-40 is a recently discovered human glycoprotein which could be an adequate marker for the assessment of asthma. How ever, it is not yet clear how YKL-40 works and what immunological mechanism of asthma is more related to the expression of this protein.
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