Animal models of asthma: Reprise or reboot?

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-139

  Mullane, Kevin ^a   Williams, Michael ^b  

^a Profectus Pharma Consulting   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Asthma; Asthma phenotypes; T cell immunity; Translational pharmacology

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 13; LEBRIKIZUMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OVALBUMIN; TRALOKINUMAB;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL DISEASE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ENDOPHENOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EX VIVO STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMATE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMAL MODELS; ASTHMA; ASTHMA PHENOTYPES; T-CELL IMMUNITY; TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 84892374397     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: 18732968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2013.06.026     Document Type: Review

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