P-glycoprotein expression in circulating blood leukocytes of patients with steroid-resistant asthma

Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-21

  Montano, Efrain ^a   Schmitz, Michael ^b   Blaser, Kurt ^a   Simon, Hans Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b High Altitude Clinic Davos Wolfgang   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asthma; Glucocorticosteroids; P glycoprotein steroid; Resistance

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLYCOPROTEIN P; RHODAMINE 123;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ASTHMA; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG RESISTANCE; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029863130     PISSN: 10189068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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