Microbial cell wall product contamination of bedding may induce pulmonary inflammation in rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 282-290

  Ewaldsson, B ^a   Fogelmark, B ^b   Feinstein, R ^c   Ewaldsson, L ^a   Rylander, Ragnar ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

(1 3) D glucan; Bedding; Endotoxin; Inflammation; Lung

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; ENDOTOXIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; BETA-GLUCANS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GLUCANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LUNG; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0036064844     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367702320162397     Document Type: Article

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