Direct assessment of small airways reactivity in human subjects

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 447-452

  Wagner, Elizabeth M ^a   Bleecker, Eugene R ^a,b   Permutt, Solbert ^a   Liu, Mark C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE PHOSPHATE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0031911395     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.157.2.9611043     Document Type: Article

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