Sputum zinc concentration and clinical outcome in older asthmatics

Respirology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 459-466

  Jayaram, Lata ^a   Chunilal, Sanjeev ^a   Pickering, Sandy ^a   Ruffin, Richard E ^a   Zalewski, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Inflammation; Labile zinc; Sputum; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFLUOROMETRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; WHEEZING; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; QUINOLONES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SALIVA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SPUTUM; TOSYL COMPOUNDS; ZINC;

EID: 79953278159     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.01932.x     Document Type: Article

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