Assessment of airway inflammation using sputum, BAL, and endobronchial biopsies in current and ex-smokers with established COPD.

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 327-334

  Wen, Yudong ^a   Reid, David W ^b   Zhang, Dongcheng ^b   Ward, Chris ^b   Wood Baker, Richard ^b   Walters, E Haydn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTACOID; IL8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 8;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MAST CELL; MAXIMAL MID EXPIRATORY FLOW; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM; VITAL CAPACITY;

AGED; BIOPSY; BRONCHI; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MAST CELLS; MAXIMAL MIDEXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM; TASMANIA; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 79952197582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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