Narirutin inhibits airway inflammation in an allergic mouse model

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 766-770

  Funaguchi, Norihiko ^a   Ohno, Yasushi ^a   La, Bu Lin Bai ^a   Asai, Toshihiro ^a   Yuhgetsu, Hideyuki ^a   Sawada, Masahiro ^a   Takemura, Genzou ^a   Minatoguchi, Shinya ^a   Fujiwara, Takako ^b   Fujiwara, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allergic eosinophilic airway inflammation; Bronchial asthma; Eosinophil; Flavonoid; IgE; Interleukin 4; Narirutin

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; NARIRUTIN; OVALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY;

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DISACCHARIDES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FLAVANONES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; MICE; OVALBUMIN; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA;

EID: 34347359564     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04636.x     Document Type: Article

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