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Published on: October 26, 2017
Clinical Use of Biomarkers in Lung Diseases
1Department of Equine and Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 57, 00017, Finland.
Abstract:
Biomarkers are measurable characteristics found in blood and other body fluids or tissues. Biomarkers serve as indicators of biological processes, and they can be applied to diagnose a disease, to monitor disease progress, or to evaluate treatment response. Inflammatory biomarkers, C-reactive protein in dogs and serum amyloid A, are increasingly used as diagnostic and follow-up markers in pneumonia. Additionally, various biomarkers have been described for the diagnosis of canine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, to discriminate between cardiac and noncardiac causes of respiratory distress as well as for the detection of microaspiration.
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