Ghrelin attenuates sepsis-induced acute lung injury and mortality in rats

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 805-813

  Wu, Rongqian ^a   Dong, Weifeng ^a   Zhou, Mian ^a   Zhang, Fangming ^a   Marini, Corrado P ^a   Ravikumar, Thanjavur S ^a   Wang, Ping ^a,b  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Nuclear factor B; Peptide

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; I KAPPA B ALPHA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MICROSPHERE; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CECUM; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LIGATION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MINIPUMP; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUNCTURE; RAT; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DOWN-REGULATION; GHRELIN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LUNG; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NF-KAPPA B; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEPSIS; SUBSTANCE P; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 35348960888     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200604-511OC     Document Type: Article

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