Colchicine does not ameliorate bleomycin-induced pulmonary injury in hamsters

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-65

  Yehuda, A Ben ^a   Lossos, I S ^a   Or, R ^a,b   Chetrit, E Ben ^a   Goldstein, R H ^b   Conner, M W ^b   Breuer, R ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleomycin; Colchicine; Hamster; Interstitial lung disease

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; COLCHICINE; HYDROXYPROLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HISTOLOGY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

EID: 0031079089     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pupt.1997.0076     Document Type: Article

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