Deciphering Asthma Biomarkers with Protein Profiling Technology

Table 2

Cytokine biomarkers in asthma explored by using antibody array technology.

Authors [reference]	Cytokine panels	Potential application	Sample source
Patil et al. [110]	Interleukin-18, FGF, HGF, and SCGFβ	Diagnosis, prediction	Serum
Kim et al. [111]	GROα/CXCL1, Eotaxin-2/CCL24, and PARC/CCL18	Diagnosis, therapeutic	Sputum
Hastie et al. [112]	BDNF, IL-1b, and MCP 3a/CCL20	Prediction	Sputum
Matsunaga et al. [113, 114]	RANTES/CCL5, TNFα and TGFβ1	Therapeutic evaluation	Exhaled breath condensate (EBC)
Nakamura et al. [115]	TNF-α and RANTES	Diagnosis	BALF
Matsunaga et al. [116]	IL-4 and RANTES	Diagnosis, prediction	Exhaled breath condensate (EBC)
Simcock et al. [117]	Angiogenin, VEGF, and MCP-1	Diagnosis, therapeutic	BALF