Airway hyperreactivity: Direct smooth muscle approach

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-101

  Wang, Y ^a   Li, W ^a   Ma, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE;

ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHUS MUSCLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TRACHEA MUSCLE;

EID: 0033117319     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pupt.1999.0187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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