Personalized medicine for asthma: Are we there yet

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 55-56

  Poon, Audrey H ^a   Hamid, Qutayba ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; LEBRIKIZUMAB; MEPOLIZUMAB; OMALIZUMAB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL THERAPLASTY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84859742732     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.94519     Document Type: Editorial

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