Development of an experimental model of maternal allergic asthma during pregnancy

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1311-1325

  Clifton, Vicki L ^a,e   Moss, Timothy J M ^b   Wooldridge, Amy L ^a   Gatford, Kathryn L ^a   Liravi, Bahar ^b   Kim, Dasom ^b   Muhlhausler, Beverly S ^c   Morrison, Janna L ^d   Davies, Andrew ^b   De Matteo, Robert ^b   Wallace, Megan J ^b   Bischof, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT; MESSENGER RNA; SURFACTANT PROTEIN B; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH INHIBITION; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; ASTHMA; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SHEEP;

EID: 84959258967     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270752     Document Type: Article

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