Relationship between airway reactivity induced by methacholine or ultrasonically nebulized distilled cold water and BAL fluid cellular constituents in patients with sulfur mustard gas-induced asthma

Journal of Aerosol Medicine: Deposition, Clearance, and Effects in the Lung

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 342-351

  Emad, Ali ^a   Emad, Yasaman ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Airway reactivity; Distilled cold water; Inflammatory BAL cells; Sulfur mustard gas induced asthma

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; METHACHOLINE; MUSTARD GAS; THEOPHYLLINE; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EOSINOPHIL; FLOW RATE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GAS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEBULIZATION; NEUTROPHIL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; VETERAN;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; COLD; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MUSTARD GAS; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; ULTRASONICS; VETERANS; WATER;

EID: 34648819509     PISSN: 08942684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jam.2007.0589     Document Type: Article

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