The importance of specific airway resistance and bronchial inflammation in the lower airway pathology of rhinitis

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1557-1558

  Bavbek, Sevim ^a   Misirligil, Zeynep ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL;

EID: 34249816145     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.01.048     Document Type: Letter

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