Peripheral blood T cells and neutrophils from asthma patients express class-I MHC-restricted T cell-associated molecule

Table 1 Characteristics of study subjects

	Asthma patients	Healthy controls
Sex (female/male)	6/11	7/10
Age, y (mean ± SEM)	22.35 ± 3.82	24.12 ± 1.38
Atopy (N°)¹	17/17	0/17
Total serum IgE levels (IU/mL) (mean ± SEM)	425.2 ± 105.2***	278.89 ± 14.6
FEV1 (% predicted; mean ± SEM)	77.65% ± 4.77***	96.59% ± 1.61

¹Atopy is defined as at least one positive prick test.
***P < 0.001 compared with non-asthmatic controls.
FEV1: forced expiratory volume in 1 second; Ig, immunoglobulin; SEM, standard error of the mean.

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