Exhaled nitric oxide in asthma in adults: The end is the beginning?

Current Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1423-1431

  Kostikas, K ^a,e   Minas, M ^b   Papaioannou, A I ^c   Papiris, S ^a   Dweik, R A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Asthma; Asthma phenotypes; Biomarker; Exhaled nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; SALBUTAMOL;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPIRED AIR; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NITRIC OXIDE;

EID: 79955022468     PISSN: 09298673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986711795328436     Document Type: Article

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