Airway Remodeling and Airway Smooth Muscle in Asthma
Airway remodeling in asthma has been recognized as structural changes of airways such as smooth muscle hypertrophy (an increase in size of airway smooth muscle cells) and hyperplasia (an increase in the number of airway smooth muscle cells), thickening and fibrosis of sub-epithelial basement membran...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2006-01-01
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| Series: | Allergology International |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893015309722 |