Comparison of inflammatory and cytotoxic lung responses in mice after intratracheal exposure to spores of two different Stachybotrys chartarum strains

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-275

  Flemming, J ^a   Hudson, B ^a   Rand, Thomas G ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atranones; Cytotoxicity; Inflammation; Intratracheal instillation; Macrocyclic trichothecenes; Mouse; Spores; Stachybotrys chartarum

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ATRANONE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYCOTOXIN; TRICHOTHECENE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLADOSPORIUM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EXPOSURE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS SPORE; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; TIME;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MYCOTOXINS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; STACHYBOTRYS; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOTHECENES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; FUNGI; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 2342444149     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfh064     Document Type: Article

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