Relationship between exhaled nitric oxide and mucosal eosinophilic inflammation in mild to moderately severe asthma

Thorax

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 184-188

  Lim, Sam ^a   Jatakanon, Anon ^a   Meah, Sally ^a   Oates, Timothy ^a   Chung, Kian Fan ^a   Barnes, Peter J ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Asthma; Eosinophils; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; NITRIC OXIDE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASTHMA; BECLOMETHASONE; BIOPSY; BREATH TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE;

EID: 0034015886     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.55.3.184     Document Type: Article

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