Effect of artesunate on endotoxin-induced uveitis in rats

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 916-919

  Wang, Xiao Qin ^a   Liu, Hai Lin ^b   Wang, Gui Bo ^a   Wu, Peng Fei ^a   Yan, Tian ^a   Xie, Jia ^a   Tang, Yong ^a   Sun, Lu Kun ^a   Li, Chen ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Pharmacy   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; ENDOTOXIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; CCL2 PROTEIN, RAT; EYE PROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; UVEITIS; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTEMISININS; CHEMOKINE CCL2; DINOPROSTONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EYE PROTEINS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 79953267960     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5892     Document Type: Article

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