Role of hypoxia in inflammatory upper airway disease

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-20

  Steinke, John W ^a   Woodard, Charles R ^a   Borish, Larry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic hyperplastic sinusitis; Cytokine; Fibroblasts; Hypoxia; Nasal polyps

Indexed keywords

EOTAXIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 8; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROCOLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NOSE POLYP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

ANOXIA; CHEMOKINES, CC; CHEMOKINES, CXC; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SINUSITIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 38049126091     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e3282f3f488     Document Type: Review

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