Therapeutic effect of erythromycin on influenza virus-induced lung injury in mice

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 3 PART I, 1998, Pages 853-857

  Sato, Keizo ^a   Suga, Moritaka ^a   Akaike, Takaaki ^a   Fujii, Shigemoto ^a   Muranaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Doi, Toshinori ^a   Maeda, Hiroshi ^a   Ando, Masayuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; FREE RADICAL; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG INJURY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CAUSE OF DEATH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROMYCIN; FREE RADICALS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MONOCYTES; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SUPEROXIDES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031954367     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.157.3.9703098     Document Type: Article

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