Assessment of alterations in barrier functionality and induction of proinflammatory and cytotoxic effects after sulfur mustard exposure of an in vitro coculture model of the human alveolo-capillary barrier

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 657-665

  Emmler, Judith ^a   Hermanns, Maria Iris ^b   Steinritz, Dirk ^a   Kreppel, Helmut ^a   Kirkpatrick, Charles James ^b   Bloch, Wilhelm ^c   Szinicz, Ladislaus ^a   Kehe, Kai ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MUSTARD GAS;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COCULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENZYME RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG TOXICITY; NICK END LABELING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD-AIR BARRIER; CAPILLARIES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOKINES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MUSTARD GAS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 34249020508     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370701353726     Document Type: Article

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