This kind of discrepancy between effects in BALF, lungs, and bronchi is not easy to explain, although a similar phenomenon was observed in a small group of patients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome where the mRNA expression for costimulatory molecules B7-1 (CD80), and the B7-1/GAPDH and B7-2/GAPDH ratios were significantly elevated for bronchial epithelial cells, whereas no differences in BALF were observed [47]. Here, CD86 is linked to bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.