Somatostatin analogs for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis therapy

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1137-1140

  Antoniu, Sabina Antonela ^a  

^a GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Animal model; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Somatostatin analog; Somatostatin receptors

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PASIREOTIDE; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 48249124530     PISSN: 13543784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/13543784.17.7.1137     Document Type: Article

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