Ceramide: A key signaling molecule in a guinea pig model of allergic asthmatic response and airway inflammation

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 324, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 548-557

  Masini, Emanuela ^a   Giannini, Lucia ^a   Nistri, Silvia ^a   Cinci, Lorenzo ^a   Mastroianni, Rosanna ^a   Xu, Wei ^b   Comhair, Suzy A A ^b   Li, Dechun ^c   Cuzzocrea, Salvatore ^d,e   Matuschak, George M ^c   Salvemini, Daniela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; CERAMIDE; FUMONISIN B1; OVALBUMIN; PROSTAGLANDIN D2;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEGRANULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSPNEA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EOSINOPHIL; GUINEA PIG; MALE; MAST CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUMONISINS; GUINEA PIGS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; SPHINGOSINE N-ACYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 38749119748     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.107.131565     Document Type: Article

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