Effect of carvacrol on tracheal responsiveness, inflammatory mediators, total and differential WBC count in blood of sensitized guinea pigs

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 200-208

  Boskabady, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Jalali, Sediqeh ^a  

^a PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asthma; Carvacrol; Inflammation; Sensitization; Tracheal responsiveness; WBC

Indexed keywords

CARVACROL; DEXAMETHASONE; METHACHOLINE; NITRIC OXIDE; OVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; GUINEA PIG; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; SENSITIZATION; TRACHEA;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; EOSINOPHILS; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MONOTERPENES; NEUTROPHILS; NITRIC OXIDE; OVALBUMIN; TRACHEA;

EID: 84877647586     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370212474604     Document Type: Article

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