Article
Effects of the beige mutation on respiratory tract infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice.
Experimental lung research - 1 Jan 2000
Tanaka E, Yuba Y, Sato A, Kuze F
Abstract excerpt
The role of neutrophil proteinases in the pathogenesis of respiratory tract infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa was evaluated by studying the course of murine respiratory tract infection with a clinical isolate of P. aeruginosa mucoid strain developed by the agarose beads method in C57BL/6J(bg...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Bactericidal Activity
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Disease Models, Animal
- Disease Susceptibility
- Female
- Leukocyte Elastase
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mutation
- Neutrophils
- Pancreatic Elastase
- Pseudomonas Infections
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Respiratory Tract Infections
- Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms
- Superoxides