Involvement of chymase in allergic conjunctivitis of guinea pigs

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-79

  Nabe, Takeshi ^a   Kijitani, Yurie ^a   Kitagawa, Yuriko ^a   Sakano, Emi ^a   Ueno, Tomoko ^a   Fujii, Masanori ^a   Nakao, Shintaro ^b   Sakai, Masaru ^b   Takai, Shinji ^c  

^a KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allergic conjunctivitis; Allergic itch; Cedar pollen; Chymase; Histamine; Mast cells; Scratching

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; CHYMASE INHIBITOR; HISTAMINE; KETOTIFEN; ONO WH 236; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GUINEA PIG; HISTAMINE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCULAR PRURITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

7-AMINO-4-METHYLCOUMARIN; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC ITCH; AMC; CEDAR POLLEN; CHYMASE; CIS; CONJUCTIVITIS INTENSITY SCORE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DMSO; HISTAMINE; IL; INTERLEUKIN; MAST CELLS; MC(T); MC(TC); NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NO; NOS; OLF; OPHTHALMIC LAVAGE FLUID; PAR; PROTEASE-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; SCRATCHING; TRYPTASE-POSITIVE MAST CELLS; TRYPTASE-POSITIVE, CHYMASE-POSITIVE MAST CELLS;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CHYMASES; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GUINEA PIGS; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HISTAMINE RELEASE; KETOTIFEN; MALE; MAST CELLS; POLLEN; PRURITUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84879424984     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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