Dexamethasone alleviates meconium-induced airway hyperresponsiveness and lung inflammation in rabbits

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-60

  Mokry, Juraj ^a   Mokra, Daniela ^a   Antosova, Martina ^a   Bulikova, Janka ^a   Calkovska, Andrea ^a   Nosalova, Gabriela ^a  

^a University Teaching Hospital in Martin   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Airway reactivity; Dexamethasone; Inflammation; Lung; Meconium; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; HISTAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TRACHEA; TRACHEA MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PNEUMONIA; RABBITS; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30944444753     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20330     Document Type: Article

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