Elevated soluble ST2 protein levels in sera of patients with asthma with an acute exacerbation

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 277-281

  Oshikawa, Katsuhisa ^a,b   Kuroiwa, Kenji ^a,b   Tago, Kenji ^a,b   Iwahana, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Yanagisawa, Ken ^a,b   Ohno, Shoji ^a,b   Tominaga, Shin Ichi ^a,b   Sugiyama, Yukihiko ^a,b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute exacerbation; Bronchial asthma; Helper T cell type 2; ST2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0035880170     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.164.2.2008120     Document Type: Article

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