Enhanced allergic inflammation and airway responsiveness in rats with chronic Cryptococcus neoformans infection: Potential role for fungal pulmonary infection in the pathogenesis of asthma

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1178-1186

  Goldman, David L ^a   Davis, Jennifer ^a   Bommarito, Frank ^a   Shao, Xiuping ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; OVALBUMIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EOSINOPHIL; GOBLET CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHILS; FLUCONAZOLE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; RATS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 33645761624     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501363     Document Type: Article

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