PMID: 9426103Jan 13, 1998Paper

Repeatability of measures of inflammatory cell number in bronchial biopsies in atopic asthma

The European Respiratory Journal
J K SontJ M van Krieken

Abstract

Airway pathology is increasingly considered to be a major outcome in asthma research. The aim of this study was to examine the intra-observer, within-section and between-biopsy repeatability, together with the implications for statistical power of a computerized quantitative analysis of inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria in bronchial biopsy specimens from atopic asthmatic subjects. Thirty six atopic adults (aged 19-40 yrs) with mild to moderate asthma (baseline forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) > or =50% of predicted value, methacholine (PC20) range 0.02-18.2 mg x mL[-1]) at various levels of treatment (25 subjects on inhaled steroids) entered the study. Biopsies were taken from the (sub)segmental carinae of the right lower and middle lobe and from the main carina. Specimens were snap-frozen and immunohistochemical staining was performed on cryostat sections with monoclonal antibodies against: (secreted) eosinophil cationic protein (EG1, EG2), mast cell tryptase (AA1), CD45, CD22, CD4, CD8, CD25, and CD45RO. Using a computerized system, the number of positively stained cells in the lamina propria was counted. When considering all cell types together, satisfactory intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC...Continue Reading

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