A role for neutrophils in asthma?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 498-500

  Woodruff, Prescott G ^a   Fahy, John V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; ASTHMATIC STATE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMORY CELL; MUCUS SECRETION; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHILIA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0037090910     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01105-1     Document Type: Editorial

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