BACKGROUND: Asthma is characterized by airway inflammation which can be reversible.
AIM: Investigation the importance of eosinophils, ECP and IL-5 in asthmatics versus patients with obstructive bronchitis and healthy subjects. We investigated the values before and after the treatment in asthmatics.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: We studied 77 subjects divided in three groups as follows: 1) asthma patients; 2) patients with obstructive bronchitis and 3) control group of healthy subjects. In all the subjects there were determined: Total number of eosinophils (Eo), eosinophilic cationic protein (ECP), Interleukin 5 (IL-5) and allergy tests.

RESULTS: The total number of eosinophils was significantly increased in the group of asthma patients versus second and third group. We found that the presence of ECP demonstrate an ongoing inflammation, with or without clinical symptoms of asthma patients. There was significant difference between the values of ECP of asthma patients versus second and third group. Our results have shown that IL-5 was significantly increased versus second group and controls (p < 0.01). We also found the decrease of the values of inflammatory markers after the treatment with corticosteroids.

Citation: Goseva Z, Jovanovska Janeva E, Gjorcev A, Arsovski Z, Pejkovska S. Role and Significance of Markers of Inflammation in the Asthmatic Disease. OA Maced J Med Sci. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2015.109
Key words: asthma; markers; inflammation; eosinophil; eosinophil cationic protein; IL-5.
*Correspondence: Elena Jovanovska Janeva, MD, MSc. University Clinic of Pulmonology and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. E-mail: eli.janeva@yahoo.com
Received: 05-Oct-2015; Revised: 09-Oct-2015; Accepted: 13-Oct-2015; Online first: 21-Oct-2015
Copyright: © 2015 Zlatica Goseva, Elena Jovanovska Janeva, Angelko Gjorcev, Zoran Arsovski, Sava Pejkovska.  This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
 

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