Basis of acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Japanese patients

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1397-1398

  Azuma, Arata ^a   Hagiwara, Koichi ^b   Kudoh, Shoji ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEFITINIB; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; JAPANESE; LETTER; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; ACUTE DISEASE; ASIAN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; GENETICS; JAPAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; NOTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; QUINAZOLINES;

EID: 44949137229     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.177.12.1397a     Document Type: Letter

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