Can short-term administration of dexamethasone abrogate radiation-induced acute cytokine gene response in lung and modify subsequent molecular responses?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 296-303

  Hong, Ji Hong ^a,d   Chiang, Chi Shiun ^b   Tsao, Chang Yao ^a   Lin, Paul Yang ^a   Wu, Chi Jung ^a   McBride, William H ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Pro inflammatory cytokine; Pulmonary irradiation; Radiation pneumonitis; Rebound phenomenon

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GENES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PULMONARY DISEASES; RNA;

PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; REBOUND;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERLEUKINS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0035479075     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)01702-3     Document Type: Article

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