Relationships between specific airway resistance and forced expiratory flows in asthmatic children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Mahut, Bruno ^a,b,c,f   Trinquart, Ludovic ^b,d,f,g   Bokov, Plamen ^b,d,e,f   Le Bourgeois, Muriel ^c   Waernessyckle, Serge ^c   Peiffer, Claudine ^b,f   Delclaux, Christophe ^b,d,f  

^a Cabinet La Berma   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f Mosquito Respiratory Research Group   (France)

^g INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; CHILD; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIROMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ASTHMA; CHILD; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW RATES; HUMANS;

EID: 65449140245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005270     Document Type: Article

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