Airway remodeling: A comparison between fatal and nonfatal asthma

Journal of Asthma

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 631-638

  Chen, Fen Hua ^a,d   Samson, Karen Thursday ^a   Miura, Katsushi ^a   Ueno, Kozo ^a   Odajima, Yasuhei ^a   Shougo, Tokutome ^b   Yoshitsugu, Yamaguchi ^c   Shioda, Seiji ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airway remodeling; Asthma; Eosinophils; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; EG2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AIRWAY; AIRWAY REMODELING; AIRWAY SMOOTH MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CARTILAGINOUS AIRWAY; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MUCUS; MUCUS GLAND; MUCUS PLUG; MUCUS SECRETION; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; SUBMUCOSA; SUBMUCOSAL GLAND;

ADULT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; AUTOPSY; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CELL DEGRANULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 9244234468     PISSN: 02770903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JAS-200026405     Document Type: Article

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