Effects of pirfenidone on procollagen gene expression at the transcriptional level in bleomycin hamster model of lung fibrosis

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 211-218

  Iyer, S N ^a   Gurujeyalakshmi, G ^a   Giri, Shri N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PIRFENIDONE; PROCOLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAMSTER; INTRATRACHEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BLEOMYCIN; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROXYPROLINE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINETICS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MESOCRICETUS; PROCOLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN-PROLINE DIOXYGENASE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PYRIDONES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032917960     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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