Exoskeletons and exhalation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2082-2084

  Dickey, Burton F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE; CHITOTRIOSIDASE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ASTHMA; CRUSTACEA; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; EXHALATION; FUNGUS; HELMINTH; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETON;

EID: 36148984547     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0706634     Document Type: Editorial

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