Self-organized patchiness in asthma as a prelude to catastrophic shifts

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7034, 2005, Pages 777-782

  Venegas, Jose G ^a,b   Winkler, Tilo ^a,b   Musch, Guido ^a,b   Melo, Marcos F Vidal ^a,b   Layfield, Dominick ^a   Tgavalekos, Nora ^a,c   Fischman, Alan J ^a,b   Callahan, Ronald J ^a,b   Bellani, Giacomo ^a   Harris, R Scott ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MUSCLE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE ASTHMA ATTACK; AVALANCHE-LIKE REOPENING; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; PULMONARY AIRWAYS; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TIDAL VOLUME;

ASTHMA; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VENTILATION; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 17144407246     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03490     Document Type: Article

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