Models and approaches to understand the role of airway remodelling in disease

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 478-486

  McAnulty, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway remodelling; Asthma; COPD; Extracellular matrix; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CIGARETTE SMOKE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GELATINASE B; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 5; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTHMA; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL CULTURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOSINOPHILIA; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TH17 CELL; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 80052397814     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: 15229629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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