Tissue fibrocytes in patients with mild asthma: A possible link to thickness of reticular basement membrane?

Respiratory Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nihlberg, Kristian ^a   Larsen, Kristoffer ^a   Hultgårdh Nilsson, Anna ^a   Malmström, Anders ^a   Bjermer, Leif ^b   Westergren Thorsson, Gunilla ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; PROCOLLAGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MYOFIBROBLAST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; THICKNESS; BRONCHUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHI; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM;

EID: 33646526470     PISSN: 1465993X     EISSN: 1465993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-7-50     Document Type: Article

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