Responsiveness of blood and sputum inflammatory cells in Japanese COPD patients, non-COPD smoking controls, and non-COPD nonsmoking controls
Tomotaka Kawayama,1 Takashi Kinoshita,1 Kazuko Matsunaga,2 Akihiro Kobayashi,3 Tomoyuki Hayamizu,4 Malcolm Johnson,5 Tomoaki Hoshino11Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fukuo...
Main Authors: | Kawayama T, Kinoshita T, Matsunaga K, Kobayashi A, Hayamizu T, Johnson M, Hoshino T |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2016-02-01
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Series: | International Journal of COPD |
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Online Access: | https://www.dovepress.com/responsiveness-of-blood-and-sputum-inflammatory-cells-in-japanese-copd-peer-reviewed-article-COPD |
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