Chronic mild prenatal stress exacerbates the allergen-induced airway inflammation in rats

Mediators of Inflammation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-122

  Nogueira, Paulo J ^a   Ferreira, Heloisa H A ^b   Antunes, Edson ^c   Teixeira, Nancy A ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asthma; Development; Eosinophils; Lungs; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

OVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL INFILTRATION; EOSINOPHIL; INFLAMMATION; LUNG LAVAGE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STRESS;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; OVALBUMIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032979193     PISSN: 09629351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09629359990621     Document Type: Article

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