Relationship between airway pathophysiology and airway inflammation in older asthmatics

Respirology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1128-1134

  Porsbjerg, Celeste M ^a,b   Gibson, Peter G ^b,c   Pretto, Jeffrey J ^b   Salome, Cheryl M ^c,f   Brown, Nathan J ^c   Berend, Norbert ^c,d,f   King, Gregory G ^c,d,e,f  

^a Department of Respiratory Medicine   (Denmark)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d Cooperative Research Centre for Asthma and Airways ^*  (Australia)

^e Department of Respiratory Medicine ^*  (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

airway closure; airway hyper responsiveness; airway inflammation; asthma; elderly

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 8; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; BRONCHOSPASM; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SPUTUM; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

AIRWAY CLOSURE; AIRWAY HYPER RESPONSIVENESS; AIRWAY INFLAMMATION; ASTHMA; ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ASTHMA; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; NITRIC OXIDE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 84884834915     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12142     Document Type: Article

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