Increased arginase activity contributes to airway remodelling in chronic allergic asthma

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-328

  Maarsingh, H ^a   Dekkers, B G J ^a   Zuidhof, A B ^a   Bos, I S T ^a   Menzen, M H ^a   Klein, T ^b   Flik, G ^b   Zaagsma, J ^a   Meurs, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway hyperresponsiveness; Airway remodelling; Eosinophils; Fibrosis; Goblet cells; Polyamines

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 6 BORONOHEXANOIC ACID; ARGINASE; CITRULLINE; HYDROLASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYPROLINE; INTERLEUKIN 13; METHACHOLINE; ORNITHINE; OVALBUMIN; PUTRESCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; GOBLET CELL; GUINEA PIG; HYPERTROPHY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; MUCUS GLAND; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; TRACHEA MUSCLE;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGENS; AMINOCAPROIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ARGINASE; ASTHMA; BORON COMPOUNDS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CITRULLINE; EOSINOPHILIA; EXOCRINE GLANDS; GOBLET CELLS; GUINEA PIGS; INTERLEUKIN-13; LUNG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; ORNITHINE; OVALBUMIN; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; TRACHEA;

EID: 80051531018     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00057710     Document Type: Article

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