Mechanical determinants of intact airway responsiveness

Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a hallmark of asthma where constriction of airway smooth muscle (ASM) causes excessive airway narrowing. Asthmatics, unlike healthy subjects, cannot prevent or reverse this narrowing by stretching their airways with a deep inspiration (DI). Since stretching of iso...

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Main Author: Harvey, Brian Christopher
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/13679