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SUBMITTER: Yao Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5250532 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yao Yi Y Welp Tobias T Liu Qing Q Niu Naiqian N Wang Xiaomei X Britto Clemente J CJ Krishnaswamy Smita S Chupp Geoffrey L GL Montgomery Ruth R RR
Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry 20170101 1
Airway diseases affect over 7% of the U.S. population and millions of patients worldwide. Asthmatic patients have wide variation in clinical severity with different clinical and physiologic manifestations of disease that may be driven by distinct biologic mechanisms. Further, the immunologic underpinnings of this complex trait disease are heterogeneous and treatment success depends on defining subgroups of asthmatics. Because of the limited availability and number of cells from the lung, the act ...[more]