Position paper: Bisphosphonates as antialveolar macrophage therapy in pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis?

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 641-643

  Brown, Robert E ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar macrophages; Bisphosphonates; Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LUNG SURFACTANT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CATHEPSIN D; CD1 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CLODRONIC ACID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TYLOXAPOL; CATHEPSIN; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MECHANISM; HISTIOCYTE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOGENESIS; LANGERHANS CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; LUNG; METABOLISM;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CATHEPSINS; DIPHOSPHONATES; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LUNG; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A;

EID: 0035036929     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.1142     Document Type: Short Survey

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