Exhaled air temperature in asthma: Methods and relationship with markers of disease

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 415-419

  Piacentini, G L ^a,c   Peroni, D ^a   Crestani, E ^a   Zardini, F ^a   Bodini, A ^a   Costella, S ^b   Boner, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Pio XII   (Italy)

^c Policlinico Universitario gB Rossi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Asthma; Exhaled air temperature

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; EOSINOPHIL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; INSTRUMENT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33847795375     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02663.x     Document Type: Article

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