Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cellular characteristics, functional parameters and cytokine and chemokine levels in interstitial lung diseases

Abstract

The article correlates bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cellular characteristics and functional parameters with cytokine and chemokine levels in interstitial lung diseases

Keywords

• iopathic pulmonary-fibrosis
• experimental hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• endothelial growth-factor
• alveolar macrophages
• angiogenic activity
• CC-chemokine
• sarcoidosis
• expression
• CCL18
• IL-8