Increased Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) and Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) levels in BAL fluid from patients with sulfur mustard gas-induced pulmonary fibrosis

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

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 352-360

  Emad, Ali ^a   Emad, Yasaman ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

BAL; Granulocyte colony stimulating factor; Granulocyte macropahge colony stimulating factor; Pulmonary fibrosis; Sulfur mustard gas

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 8; MUSTARD GAS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GAS; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSTARD GAS; NEUTROPHILS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; UP-REGULATION; VETERANS;

EID: 34648833451     PISSN: 08942684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jam.2007.0590     Document Type: Article

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