Airway remodelling in asthma: role for mechanical forces
Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease with functional and structural changes, leading to bronchial hyperresponsiveness and airflow obstruction. Airway structural changes or airway remodelling consist of epithelial injury, goblet cell hyperplasia, subepithelial layer thickening, airway smoo...
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| Language: | English |
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Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921863/ |