Post-lung transplant bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is characterized by increased exhaled nitric oxide levels and epithelial inducible nitric oxide synthase

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2182-2187

  Gabbay, Eli ^a   Walters, E Haydn ^a   Orsida, Bernadette ^a   Whitford, Helen ^a   Ward, Christopher ^a   Kotsimbos, Tom C ^a   Snell, Gregory I ^a   Williams, Trevor J ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034524380     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.162.6.9911072     Document Type: Article

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