Mediators of Inflammation
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 18061, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/MI/2006/18061
Short Communication

Detection of Erythropoietin in Exhaled Breath Condensate of Nonhypoxic Subjects Using a Multiplex Bead Array

Christian Schumann,1 Kathy Triantafilou,2 Stefan Krueger,1 Vinzenz Hombach,1 Martha Triantafilou,2 Gunther Becher,3 and Philipp M. Lepper1,4

1Department of Internal Medicine II, Section of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Straβe 8 89081, Ulm, Germany
2Infection and Immunity Group, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
3Research Society of Lung and Chest Diseases Ltd, Berlin 13125, Germany
4Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern 3010, Switzerland

Received 27 April 2006; Revised 23 August 2006; Accepted 23 August 2006

Copyright © 2006 Christian Schumann et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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