Growth hormone releasing peptide-2, a ghrelin agonist, attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury in rats

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-13

  Li, Guang ^a   Li, Jianguo ^a   Zhou, Qing ^a   Song, Xuemin ^a   Liang, Hui ^a   Huang, Lili ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Cytokines; Growth hormone releasing peptide 2; Lipopolysaccharide; Nuclear factor B

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PRALMORELIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INJURY SEVERITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYTOKINES; GHRELIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LUNG; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEROXIDASE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77956209223     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.222.7     Document Type: Article

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