Increased expression of acidic mammalian chitinase and chitotriosidase in the nasal mucosa of patients with allergic rhinitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 870-875

  Cho, Woo Sung ^a   Kim, Tae Hoon ^a   Lee, Heung Man ^a   Lee, Seung Hoon ^a   Lee, Sung Ho ^a   Yoo, Joon Hyuk ^a   Kim, Yeon Soo ^a   Lee, Sang Hag ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acidic mammalian chitinase; Allergic nasal mucosa; Chitotriosidase

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC MAMMALIAN CHITINASE; CHITINASE; CHITOTRIOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; STAINING; TURBINATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHITINASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEXOSAMINIDASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINOPLASTY; RNA, MESSENGER; TURBINATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951731375     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20863     Document Type: Article

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