Actin filaments mediate DNA fiber formation in chronic inflammatory airway disease

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 919-927

  Sheils, Catherine A ^a,b   Käs, Josef ^a   Travassos, Win ^a   Allen, Philip G ^a   Janmey, Paul A ^a   Wohl, Mary Ellen ^a   Stossel, Thomas P ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Experimental Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; GELSOLIN;

ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPUTUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; GELSOLIN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SPUTUM;

EID: 0030092025     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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