The relationship between airway hyper-responsiveness, markers of inflammation and lung function depends on the duration of the asthmatic disease

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-63

  Gronke L ^a   Kanniess, F ^a   Holz, O ^a   Jorres R A ^a   Magnussen, H ^a  

^a KRANKENHAUS GROSSHANSDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway hyper responsiveness; Inflammation; Lung function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE MARKER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHITIS; EOSINOPHILS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; TIME FACTORS; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0036123836     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0022-0477.2001.01297.x     Document Type: Article

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