The effect of single dose of thymoquinone, the main constituents of Nigella sativa, in guinea pig model of asthma

BioImpacts

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 75-81

  Keyhanmanesh, Rana ^a   Pejman, Laleh ^b   Omrani, Hasan ^b   Mirzamohammadi, Zahra ^b   Shahbazfar, Amir A ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asthma; Inflammation; Responsiveness; Thymoquinone; Tracheal

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; METHACHOLINE; THYMOQUINONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLACK CUMIN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; GUINEA PIG; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRACHEA;

EID: 84905487771     PISSN: 22285652     EISSN: 22285660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5681/bi.2014.006     Document Type: Article

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