T lymphocytes: Setting the tone of the airways

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 382-383

  Gelfand, Erwin W ^a   Irvin, Charles G ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ASTHMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030958222     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0497-382     Document Type: Note

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