The relationships among hydrogen peroxide in expired breath condensate, airway inflammation, and asthma severity

Chest

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 338-346

  Loukides, Stelios ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes ^b   Papatheodorou, Georgios ^a   Panagou, Panos ^a   Siafakas, Nikolaos M ^b  

^a 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Hydrogen peroxide; Severity; Stable asthma

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; HISTAMINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPIRED AIR; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPHIL; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0036169846     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.121.2.338     Document Type: Article

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