Mucus in chronic airway diseases: Sorting out the sticky details

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 306-308

  Cohn, Lauren ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 13; STAT6 PROTEIN;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; APOPTOSIS; ASTHMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; EPITHELIUM CELL; GOBLET CELL; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE STRAIN; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-13; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MICE; MUCUS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

EID: 32444442905     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI27690     Document Type: Review

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