Recovery from adult-onset asthma and airway remodelling

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1733-1735

  Maestrelli, P ^a   Saetta, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANGIOGENESIS; ASTHMA; CELL DAMAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RISK FACTOR; WHEEZING;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 36348972267     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02854.x     Document Type: Editorial

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