Airway structure in asthma: A role for confocal microscopy?

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 349-354

  Goldie, R G ^a   Fernandes, L B ^a   Rigby, P J ^a   Pudney, C J ^a   Spalding, L J ^a   O'Connor, B J ^b   Page, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ASTHMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FIBROSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ANIMAL; INNERVATION; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 0032193191     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pupt.1999.0161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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