CXCL8 and asthma: In patients with asthma, AZM, CAM, and RXM decrease eosinophil and neutrophil counts, inhibit neutrophil migration and oxidative burst activity in phagocytes, decrease concentrations of neutrophil elastase, ECP, IL-1, IL-4, IL-5, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, MMP-9, TNF-alpha, and INF-gamma in nasopharyngeal secretions, sputum, or bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples (27–30, 32–36).