Severe asthma: A consequence of over exuberant repair?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1630-1632

  Brightling, C E ^a   Desai, D ^a   Siddiqui, S ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COUGHING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEEZING;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM;

EID: 70350308025     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03356.x     Document Type: Editorial

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