Atopic dermatitis-like pruritic skin inflammation caused by feeding a special diet of HR-1 hairless mice

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 460-468

  Fujii, Masanori ^a   Tomozawa, Junko ^a   Mizutani, Nobuaki ^a   Nabe, Takeshi ^a   Danno, Kiichiro ^b   Kohno, Shigekatsu ^a  

^a KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Dysfunction; Itch; Murine model; Skin barrier

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY SKIN; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDERMIS HYPERPLASIA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; SCRATCHING; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SYMPTOM; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER LOSS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WATER; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED HRS; PRURITUS; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19644378658     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2005.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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