Therapeutic and prophylactic effects of PUVA photochemotherapy on atopic dermatitis-like lesions in NC/Nga mice

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 125-130

  Miyauchi Hashimoto, Hiroko ^a   Okamoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Sugihara, Akira ^a   Horio, Takeshi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Mast cell; Murine model; NC Nga mice; PUVA

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; METHOXSALEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ANIMALS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; METHOXSALEN; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PUVA THERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 20144366617     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2005.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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