Tryptase concentrations in bronchoalveolar lavage from patients with chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

Clinical Science

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 273-276

  Bargagli, Elena ^a   Bigliazzi, Caterina ^a   Leonini, Alessandra ^a   Nikiforakis, Nikolaos ^a   Perari, Maria G ^a   Rottoli, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bronchoalverolar lavage; Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia; Eosinophil; Mast cell; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

TRYPTASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRYPTASES;

EID: 14844334535     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20040178     Document Type: Article

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