Critical assessment of the value of sputum neutrophils

COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-114

  Gupta, Vandana ^a   Singh, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD18 ANTIGEN; FLUTICASONE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE PLUS SALMETEROL; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 8; NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE; PLACEBO; ROFLUMILAST;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL FUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING; SPUTUM; TREATMENT DURATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM;

EID: 84874076697     PISSN: 15412555     EISSN: 15412563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15412555.2013.766105     Document Type: Article

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