Smooth Muscle Hypercontractility in Airway Hyperresponsiveness: Innate, Acquired, or Nonexistent?
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1 Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, 2725 Chemin Sainte-Foy, Québec, QC, Canada G1V 4G5 2Département de Physiologie et Biophysique, Factulté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1H 5N4 3Department of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, Institute for Lung Health (Glenfield Hospital), University of Leicester School of Medicine, University Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK 4Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Abramson Research Bulding, Room 410, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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دوره 2013 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013