Airway responses to the inhalation of cotton dust and cotton bract extracts

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-47

  Schachter, E Neil ^a,b   Zuskin, Eugenija ^c   Buck, Marion ^a   Witek, Theodore J ^a   Godbold, James ^b   Roy, Noah ^b   Castranova, Vincent ^d   Whitmer, Michael ^d   Siegel, Paul D ^d   Bluhm, Elisabeth C ^a  

^a Medical Department AC and C of New York City   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway hyperresponsiveness; Byssinosis; Cotton bract; Cotton dust

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; BYSSINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; COTTON DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SMOKING; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

ADULT; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BYSSINOSIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DUST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 33644532239     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088354     Document Type: Article

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