Neutrophil recruitment into the lungs is associated with increased lung elastase burden, decreased lung elastin, and emphysema in α1 proteinase inhibitor-deficient mice

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 273-280

  Cavarra, Eleonora ^a   Martorana, Piero A ^b   Gambelli, Federica ^a   De Santi, Margherita ^a   Van Even, Paul ^b   Lungarella, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; ELASTIN; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; ELASTIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEUTROPHILS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA;

EID: 0029746493     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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