Airway remodelling and inflammation in sheep lungs after chronic airway challenge with house dust mite

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 146-152

  Snibson, Kenneth J ^a   Bischof, R J ^a   Slocombe, R F ^a   Meeusen, E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway smooth muscle; Collagen; Eosinophils; Mast cells; Remodelling

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

AIRWAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; BRONCHUS MUSCLE; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; EOSINOPHILIA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; SHEEP; SMOOTH MUSCLE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MODELS, ANIMAL; SHEEP;

EID: 14844355588     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02137.x     Document Type: Article

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