Increased glucocorticoid receptor β in airway cells of glucocorticoid- insensitive asthma

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 5 I, 1999, Pages 1600-1604

  Hamid, Qutayba A ^b   Wenzel, Sally E ^b   Hauk, Pia J ^b   Tsicopoulos, Anne ^b   Wallaert, Benoit ^b   Lafitte, Jean Jacques ^b   Chrousos, George P ^b   Szefler, Stanley J ^b   Leung, Donald Y M ^a  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032914288     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.159.5.9804131     Document Type: Article

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