Cyclosporin A upmodulates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in BALB/c mice

Respiration

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 344-349

  Lossos, Izidore S ^a   Or, Reuven ^b   Ginzburg, Vallery ^a   Christensen, Thomas G ^c   Mashriki, Yaffa ^a   Breuer, Raphael ^a,b,c  

^a Institute of Pulmonology   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; Bleomycin; Cyclosporin A; Lung fibrosis; Th1 inflammatory response

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROXYPROLINE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOSPORINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 0036056306     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063273     Document Type: Article

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