Cilia with Defective Radial Spokes: A Cause of Human Respiratory Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 300, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 53-56

  Sturgess, Jennifer M ^a   Chao, Judy ^a   Wong, John ^a   Aspin, Norman ^a   Turner, J A Peter ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHITIS; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SINUSITIS;

EID: 0018341965     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197901113000201     Document Type: Article

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