Healthy controls

Bronchial asthma groups

Mild persistent (Group I)

Moderate persistent (Group II)

Severe persistent (Group III)

Serum

ADA^a

11.16 ± 0.39

10.69 ± 0.32

8.29 ± 0.31^***†

7.71 ± 0.33^***†

(Range)

(8.82 - 14.37)

(7.91 - 20.4)

(6.46 - 10.57)

(8.53 - 15.94)

ADA1^a

3.77 ± 0.20

3.53 ± 0.23

2.24 ± 0.16^***†

2.43 ± 0.18^***†

(Range)

(2.91 - 5.85)

(1.77 - 4.76)

(1.31 - 3.61)

(1.16 - 3.46)

ADA2^a

7.39 ± 0.29

7.16 ± 0.19

6.06 ± 0.24^**†

5.28 ± 0.23^***†

(Range)

(5.58 - 9.48)

(6.14 - 8.56)

(5.07 - 8.42)

(3.36 - 6.38)

Lymphocytes

ADA^b

6.91 ± 0.19

7.39 ± 0.19

5.57 ± 0.29^***†

4.53 ± 0.21^***†‡

(Range)

(5.58 - 7.95)

(5.79 - 8.24)

(4.07 - 7.46)

(2.88 - 5.79)

ADA1^b

6.45 ± 0.17

6.84 ± 0.19

5.10 ± 0.25^***†

4.21 ± 0.19^***†‡

(Range)

(5.30 - 7.32)

(5.26 - 7.89)

(3.74 - 6.70)

(2.65 - 5.47)

ADA2^b

0.46 ± 0.05

0.55 ± 0.05

0.47 ± 0.05

0.32 ± 0.03^†

(Range)

(0.20 - 0.86)

(0.35 - 0.79)

(0.19 - 0.76)

(0.12 - 0.49)

Erythrocytes

ADA^c

3.77 ± 0.23

6.55 ± 0.27^***

3.74 ± 0.27^†††

3.71 ± 0.34^†††

(Range)

(2.02 - 5.09)

(4.52 - 8.28)

(1.44 - 5.22)

(2.88 - 5.79)

ADA1^c

3.60 ± 0.23

6.24 ± 0.26^***

3.57 ± 0.26^†††

3.65 ± 0.33^†††

(Range)

(1.87 - 4.98)

(4.34 - 8.01)

(1.37 - 5.00)

(0.98 - 5.76)

ADA2^c

0.17 ± 0.01

0.31 ± 0.03^***

0.17± 0.01^†††

0.14 ± 0.01^†††

(Range)

(0.11 - 0.27)

(0.14 - 0.60)

(0.07 - 0.27)

(0.12 - 0.49)