Mucus plugs in patients with asthma linked to eosinophilia and airflow obstruction

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 997-1009

  Dunican, Eleanor M ^a,m   Elicker, Brett M ^b   Gierada, David S ^c   Nagle, Scott K ^d   Schiebler, Mark L ^d   Newell, John D ^e   Raymond, Wilfred W ^a   Lachowicz Scroggins, Marrah E ^a   Di Maio, Selena ^a   Hoffman, Eric A ^e   Castro, Mario ^f   Fain, Sean B ^d   Jarjour, Nizar N ^d   Israel, Elliot ^g   Levy, Bruce D ^g   Erzurum, Serpil C ^h   Wenzel, Sally E ⁱ   Meyers, Deborah A ^j,n   Bleecker, Eugene R ^j,n   Phillips, Brenda R ^k   Mauger, David T ^k   Gordon, Erin D ^a   Woodruff, Prescott G ^a   Peters, Michael C ^a   Fahy, John V ^a   Noel, Patricia ^l   Smith, Robert ^l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Division of Cardiovascular Sciences NHLBI   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE; CYSTEINE; EOSINOPHIL PEROXIDASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; THIOCYANATE; THIOL GROUP; OXIDIZING AGENT; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPUTUM; YOUNG MODULUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPLICATION; ELASTICITY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTEINE; ELASTICITY; EOSINOPHIL PEROXIDASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OXIDANTS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85042774415     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI95693     Document Type: Article

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