Airway Responsiveness to Acetylcholine in Congenitally Bronchial-Hypersensitive (BHS) and Bronchial-Hyposensitive (BHR) Guinea Pigs in Vivo and in Vitro

Experimental Animals

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 173-181

  Yagi, Yukihiro ^a   Kuwahara, Masayoshi ^a   Maeda, Masashi ^a   Kadota, Hiromi ^a   Saegusa, Shizue ^a   Birumachi, Jun Ichi ^a   Sugano, Shigeru ^a   Nishibata, Ryoji ^b   Mikami, Hiroki ^b   Tsubone, Hirokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acethylcholinesterase; Acetylcholine; Airway smooth muscle; Carbachol; Muscarinic receptor

Indexed keywords

CAVIA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CARBACHOL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INHALATION TEST; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RODENT DISEASE; TRACHEA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CARBACHOL; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RODENT DISEASES; TRACHEA;

EID: 0032118977     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.47.173     Document Type: Article

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