High-resolution computed tomographic evaluation of airway distensibility and the effects of lung inflation on airway caliber in healthy subjects and individuals with asthma

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 994-1001

  Brown, Robert H ^a   Scichilone, Nicola ^b   Mudge, Beatrice ^b   Diemer, Fiona B ^b   Permutt, Solbert ^b   Togias, Alkis ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING; BREATHING MUSCLE; BRONCHODILATATION; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE;

EID: 0035065323     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.163.4.2007119     Document Type: Article

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