Airway mucus function and dysfunction.
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چکیده
From the Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (J.V.F.); and the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (B.F.D.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Dickey at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 301402, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX, 77030-4009, or at [email protected].
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The New England journal of medicine
دوره 363 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010