Variability of bronchial inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: implications for study design.

There is variability in the distribution of inflammatory cells in bronchial tissue in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Better strategies for biopsy sampling of the airway mucosa may improve the capacity to show a difference between study populations where variability in distribution exi...

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Main Authors: Gamble, E, Qiu, Y, Wang, D, Zhu, J, Vignola, A, Kroegel, C, Morell, F, Hansel, T, Pavord, I, Rabe, K, Barnes, N, Jeffery, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2006