Dose-response relationship and reproducibility of the fall in exhaled nitric oxide after inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate therapy in asthma patients

Chest

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1322-1328

  Silkoff, Philip E ^a   McClean, Patricia ^a   Spino, Michael ^a   Erlich, Lu Ann ^a   Slutsky, Arthur S ^a   Zamel, Noe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Dose response; Exhaled nitric oxide; Reproducibility; Steroids

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; METHACHOLINE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034929135     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.119.5.1322     Document Type: Article

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