Morphometric analysis of mouse airways after chronic allergen challenge

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1285-1291

  Ellis, Russ ^a   Leigh, Richard ^a   Southam, David ^a   O'Byrne, Paul M ^a   Inman, Mark D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

AIRWAY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING MUSCLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; LUNG SLICE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACTINS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OVALBUMIN; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0141478647     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.LAB.0000087586.25982.B5     Document Type: Article

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