Acute inflammatory responses in the airways and peripheral blood after short-term exposure to diesel exhaust in healthy human volunteers

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 702-709

  Salvi, Sundeep ^a,b,c   Blomberg, Anders ^a,b,c   Rudell, Bertil ^a,b,c   Kelly, Frank ^a,b,c   Sandström, Thomas ^a,b,c   Holgate, Stephen T ^a,b,c   Frew, Anthony ^a,b,c  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MAST CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0032985046     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.159.3.9709083     Document Type: Article

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