Protective effects of ketamine on allergen-induced airway inflammatory injure and high airway reactivity in asthma: Experiment with rats

National Medical Journal of China

Volumn 87, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1308-1313

  Zhu, Min Min ^a   Qian, Yan Ning ^b   Zhu, Wei ^b   Xu, Yu Min ^b   Rong, Hai Bo ^b   Ding, Zheng Nian ^b   Fu, Cheng Zhang ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asthma; Ketamine; Nitric oxide synthase; Rats

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALLERGEN; ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; BETA ACTIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; KETAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; OVALBUMIN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG EDEMA; NEBULIZATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVOCATION TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SENSITIZATION;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; KETAMINE; LUNG; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34447571929     PISSN: 03762491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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