What can we learn about airway smooth muscle from the company it keeps?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-11

  Siddiqui, S ^a   Hollins, F ^a   Brightling, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ASTHMA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 52749090828     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00056108     Document Type: Editorial

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