COPD patients or 'healthy smokers': Is IL-8 synthesis and release the borderline?

Respiration

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 457-459

  Rossi, Giovanni A ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKOTRIENE B4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING;

EID: 0346850735     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074198     Document Type: Editorial

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