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Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease

Known as: -- COPD, Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic, Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic Obstructive 
A chronic and progressive lung disorder characterized by the loss of elasticity of the bronchial tree and the air sacs, destruction of the air sacs… 
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
LATE AIRWAY CHANGES CAUSED BY CHRONIC REJECTION IN RAT LUNG ALLOGRAFTS
Airway disease after lung or heart-lung transplantation is one of late major complications, affecting the prognosis of the… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Microbiology of obstructive tonsillar hypertrophy and recurrent tonsillitis.
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the tonsillar surface and core of children with recurrent streptococcal tonsillitis… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Further evidence for the involvement of a phosphoprotein in the respiratory burst oxidase of human neutrophils.
Phosphorylation of a 47 kDa protein in human neutrophils is induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), opsonized latex… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Interactions of granulocytes with the lungs.
Under normal conditions, there is a sizeable pool of marginated granulocytes in the lung circulation which is in dynamic… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Right Ventricular Ejection Fraction During Exercise in Normal Subjects and in Coronary Artery Disease Patients: Assessment by Multiple‐gated Equilibrium Scintigraphy
SUMMARYThe response of right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) during exercise and its relationship to the location and extent… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Chronic Granulocytic Leukaemia: Effect of Elective Splenectomy on the Course of Disease
Conventional treatment by drugs or irradiation produces little prolongation of life in patients with chronic granulocytic… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Effects of complement depletion in experimental chagas disease: immune lysis of virulent blood forms of Trypanosoma cruzi
In mice infected with virulent blood (trypomastigote) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, complement depletion with cobra venom factor… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Candidate for immunoglobulin D present on murine B lymphocytes
ALTHOUGH the original discovery of human IgD is almost ten years old1, it is only very recently that a possible function for this… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Simplified Placental Localization
Localization of the placenta by means of technetium-99m and a portable scintillation counter and ratemeter proved to be both… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
`Sweat Test' Results in Normal Persons of Different Ages Compared with Families with Fibrocystic Disease of the Pancreas
Many workers have confirmed the original observation of Darling, Di Sant'Agnese, Perera and Andersen (1953) that sweat sodium and… 
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