Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
2010 , Vol 14 , Issue 3
Animal models of asthma
Marmara University, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Department, İstanbul, Türkiye
DOI :
10.12991/201014444
Allergic disease such as asthma, rhinitis, and eczema are increasing prevelance
and affect up to 15% of population in Westernized countries. Among them, asthma is a
chronic inflammatory disease of airways and the underlying physiological and immunological
processes are not fully understood. Mouse models of asthma dupicates many features
of human asthma, including airway hyperreactivity, andairway inflammation. Therefore, relevant
models for asthma are important to understand the mechanism of disease and therapeutical
approach. In this article, basicly various animal models of asthma and some theraputic
approaches are disscussed.
Keywords :
Asthma,Mouse, Ovalbumin, Regulatory cells