Optimizing sputum methodology

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 653-657

  Erin, E M ^a   Barnes, P J ^a   Hansel, T T ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; DITHIOTHREITOL; EOSINOPHIL PEROXIDASE; EOSINOPHIL PROTEIN X; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 8; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; PEROXIDASE; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ASTHMA; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EDITORIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIQUEFACTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SUPERNATANT; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPUTUM; STANDARD;

ASTHMA; BLOOD PROTEINS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EOSINOPHILS; HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN-5; INTERLEUKIN-8; PEROXIDASE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPUTUM; HUMANS;

EID: 0035999838     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2002.01409.x     Document Type: Editorial

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