Chronic airway disease: Deteriorating pulmonary function in sheep associated with repeated challenges of house dust mite

Experimental Lung Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 321-330

  Koumoundouros, Emmanuel ^a,b   Bischof, Robert J ^b   Meeusen, Els N ^b   Mareels, Iven M Y ^b   Snibson, Kenneth J ^b  

^a Centre for Animal Biotechnology   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Bronchial hyperresponsiveness; Eosinophil; Lung infection

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIZATION; SHEEP;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; PYROGLYPHIDAE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SHEEP;

EID: 33750318921     PISSN: 01902148     EISSN: 15210499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01902140600916960     Document Type: Article

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