Remodelling of airway smooth muscle in asthma: What sort do you have?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 703-707

  James, Alan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Extracellular matrix; Hyperplasia; Hypertrophy; Smooth muscle; Stereology

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LAMININ; SCLEROPROTEIN; TENASCIN;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LUNG FUNCTION; MESENCHYME CELL; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEREOLOGY;

ASTHMA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; LUNG; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 21844436050     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02270.x     Document Type: Article

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