Peripheral killer cells do not differentiate between asthma patients with or without fixed airway obstruction

Objective: The three main types of killer cells – CD8+ T cells, NK cells and NKT cells – have been linked to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, their role in a small subset of asthma patients displaying fixed airway obstruction (FAO), similar to that seen in COPD, has...

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Main Authors: Tubby, Carolyn, Negm, Ola H., Harrison, Timothy W., Tighe, Patrick J., Todd, Ian, Fairclough, Lucy C.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39043/