Cargando…

Surfactant protein B polymorphisms are associated with severe respiratory syncytial virus infection, but not with asthma

BACKGROUND: Surfactant proteins (SP) are important for the innate host defence and essential for a physiological lung function. Several linkage and association studies have investigated the genes coding for different surfactant proteins in the context of pulmonary diseases such as chronic obstructiv...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Puthothu, Beena, Forster, Johannes, Heinze, Jessica, Heinzmann, Andrea, Krueger, Marcus
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1877814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17498296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-7-6