Relationship of age, sex, body weight, and hematologic and respiratory variables with airway reactivity in adult cats

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-31

  Hirt, Reinhard A ^a   Dederichs, Diana ^a   Boehler, Alexandra ^a   Hoffman, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL;

AEROSOL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS REACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROVOCATION TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIDAL VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; CARBACHOL; CATS; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; FEMALE; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, WHOLE BODY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

ANIMALIA; BRONCHUS; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0037248011     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2003.64.26     Document Type: Article

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