Morphometry explains variation in airway responsiveness in transgenic mice overexpressing interleukin-6 and interleukin-11 in the lung

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Volumn 117, Issue 5 SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages 260S-262S

  Kuhn, Charles ^a,d   Homer, Robert J ^b   Zhu, Zhou ^c   Ward, Nicholas ^c   Elias, Jack A ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034091092     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-3692(15)51023-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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