KCa3.1 Channel-Blockade Attenuates Airway Pathophysiology in a Sheep Model of Chronic Asthma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Van Der Velden, Joanne ^a   Sum, Grace ^a   Barker, Donna ^a   Koumoundouros, Emmanuel ^a   Barcham, Garry ^a   Wulff, Heike ^b   Castle, Neil ^c   Bradding, Peter ^d   Snibson, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Icagen Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CARBACHOL; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; ICA 17073; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCA3.1; SENICAPOC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG RESISTANCE; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SHEEP;

ACETAMIDES; AIRWAY REMODELING; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BLOOD VESSELS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CARBACHOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; INTERMEDIATE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; MAST CELLS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PYROGLYPHIDAE; SHEEP; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRITYL COMPOUNDS;

OVIS ARIES; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 84879491623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066886     Document Type: Article

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