A living case of pulmonary ossification associated with osteoclast formation from alveolar macrophage in the presence of T-cell cytokines

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 834-838

  Tsuji, Takao ^a   Nakamura, Seiichi ^b   Komuro, Iwao ^b   Mikami, Masashi ^b   Baba, Michiko ^b   Tanaka, Michio ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN HIROO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

A living case; IL 4; M CSF; Pulmonary ossification; T cell cytokines

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE TARTRATE RESISTANT ISOENZYME; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; OSTEOCLAST; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141996516     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.834     Document Type: Article

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