Decrease in Alveolar Macrophage Number during Pneumocystis carinii Infection

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 630-631

  Lasbury, Mark E ^a   Durant, Pamela J ^a   Lee, Chao Hung ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CASPASE; DEXAMETHASONE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CASPASES; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RATS;

ANIMALIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 0348226916     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00658.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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