The use of transgenic mice for modeling airways disease

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 699-701

  Shapiro, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; COPD; Gene targeted mice; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE 3; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MACROPHAGE ELASTASE; NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE MODEL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INFLAMMATION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50849124795     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: 15229629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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