Progesterone and environmental tobacco smoke act synergistically to exacerbate the development of allergic asthma in a mouse model

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 276-286

  Mitchell, V L ^a   Gershwin, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Environmental tobacco smoke; Gender; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROGESTERONE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SEX RATIO; SPLEEN CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 33846451379     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02658.x     Document Type: Article

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