TY - BOOK AU - Eman Mohamed Musa Elsheikh AU - Ayman Mansour Abdelgouad , AU - Mohammed Abdelfattah Abdelmoetey , AU - Zeinab Mohamed Radwan , TI - Assessment of serum L - carnitine levels and its role in Egyptian asthmatic children / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Eman Mohamed Musa Elsheikh , KW - Asthma KW - L - carnitine KW - Pulmonary functions N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Bronchial asthma is a chronic airway disease with an underlying inflammatory component . Despite advances in modern medical care and the introduction of effective therapies , such as inhaled corticosteroids , poor asthma control exists in clinical practice That can be attributed to two primary factors ER -