LPS inhalation challenge: A new tool to characterize the inflammatory response in humans

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-19

  Kitz, Richard ^a   Rose, Markus A ^a   Placzek, Katja ^a   Schulze, Johannes ^a   Zielen, Stefan ^a   Schubert, Ralf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchial hyperreactivity; Experimental endotoxin inhalation; Repeatability; Safety

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ADULT; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEUTROPHILS; NITRIC OXIDE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 36348979301     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-007-0053-2     Document Type: Article

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