Effect of hirudin on the levels of acute lung injury rat tumor necrosis factor-α and matrix metalloproteinase-12

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 873-875

  Bao, Yongxia ^a   Geng, Ying ^a   Jing, Hui ^a,b  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Hirudin; Lipopolysaccharide; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

HIRUDIN; MACROPHAGE ELASTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIRUDIN THERAPY; HIRUDINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 12; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, PAR-1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84856255737     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.739     Document Type: Article

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