Pulmonary responses to Stachybotrys chartarum and its toxins: Mouse strain affects clearance and macrophage cytotoxicity

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-121

  Lichtenstein Rosenblum, Jamie H ^a   Molina, Ramon M ^a   Donaghey, Thomas C ^a   Amuzie, Chidozie J ^b   Pestka, James J ^b   Coull, Brent A ^a   Brain, Joseph D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute; Doseresponse; Immunotoxicology; Lung; Macrophage; Pulmonary or respiratory system; Respiratory toxicology; Risk assessment; Rodent; Safety evaluation; Stachybotrys chartarum; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MYCOTOXIN; SATRATOXIN G; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM SPORE TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MACROPHAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STACHYBOTRYS; TOXICITY;

MUS; RODENTIA; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOTOXINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL; STACHYBOTRYS;

EID: 77954353799     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfq104     Document Type: Article

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