Therapeutic potential of Rho-kinase inhibitors in asthma

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 705-706

  Xing, Xi Qian ^a   Gan, Ye ^a   Wu, Shang Jie ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Zhou, Rui ^a   Xiang, Xu Dong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR;

ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DRUG ACTIVATION; DRUG INHIBITION; LETTER; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT;

AMIDES; ASTHMA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES;

EID: 33845943074     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.09.016     Document Type: Letter

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