The eosinophil as a therapeutic target in asthma: Beginning of the end, or end of the beginning?

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-232

  Adamko, Darryl ^a   Odemuyiwa, Solomon Olawole ^a   Moqbel, Redwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3; CORTICOSTEROID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 5 ANTIBODY; MEPOLIZUMAB; SNARE PROTEIN;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EOSINOPHIL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; EOSINOPHILS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG;

EID: 0037502796     PISSN: 14714892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4892(03)00040-7     Document Type: Review

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