Exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes results in aggravation of airway inflammation and remodeling and in increased production of epithelium-derived innate cytokines in a mouse model of asthma

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 489-499

  Ronzani, Carole ^a   Casset, Anne ^a   Pons, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Airway epithelium; Asthma; Carbon nanotubes; IL 25; IL 33; Innate immunity; Thymic stromal lymphopoietin

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 84893957062     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-013-1116-3     Document Type: Article

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