Biomarkers for diagnosing equine asthma

Abstract

It is provided a method for analyzing an isolated airway secretion sample of an equine patient in vitro, the method comprising the following steps: a) providing an isolated airway secretion sample originating from an equine patient, b) determining the concentration of at least one protein chosen from the group consisting of mucin-4, polymeric immunoglobulin receptor, carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1, CD177, and vanin 1 in the isolated airway secretion sample, c) determining that the equine patent suffers from equine asthma if the concentration of the at least one protein exceeds a predeterminable threshold.

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