Eosinophil-epithelial cell interactions: An important facet of asthmatic inflammation

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 811-813

  Sexton, Darren W ^a   Walsh, Garry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; APOPTOSIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEGRANULATION; EDITORIAL; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAST CELL; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0036285825     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2002.01428.x     Document Type: Editorial

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