Serum rheumatoid factor and peripheral blood eosinophil counts in patients with bronchial asthma

Japanese Journal of Allergology

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1210-1215

  Kobayashi, Yoshiki ^a,b   Yasuba, Hirotaka ^a   Kita, Hideo ^a   Hamada, Kazuyuki ^a,b   Chihara, Junichi ^b  

^a TAKATSUKI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchial asthma; Eosinophil count; Rheumatoid factor

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 13444304089     PISSN: 00214884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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