Kinetic study of host defense and inflammatory response to aspergillus fumigatus in steroid-induced immunosuppressed mice

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 1472-1482

  Duong, Michel ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE ACETATE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MYELOPEROXIDASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLAMMATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; KINETICS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUTROPHILS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0031724169     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314425     Document Type: Article

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