Airway inflammation, basement membrane thickening and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in asthma

Thorax

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 309-316

  Ward, C ^c   Pais, M ^a   Bish, R ^a   Reid, D ^a   Feltis, B ^a   Johns, D ^b   Walters, E Haydn ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANDROSTADIENES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPSY; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; BRONCHOSCOPY; COLLAGEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036216744     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.57.4.309     Document Type: Article

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