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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Rui Xiao
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38409 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Xiao Rui R Perveen Zakia Z Rouse Rodney L RL Le Donne Viviana V Paulsen Daniel B DB Ambalavanan Namasivayam N Penn Arthur L AL
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 20131201 6
Second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure in utero exacerbates adult responses to environmental irritants. We tested the hypothesis that effects of in utero SHS exposure on modulating physiological and transcriptome responses in BALB/c mouse lungs after ovalbumin (OVA) challenge extend well into adulthood, and that the responses show a sex bias. We exposed BALB/c mice in utero to SHS or filtered air (AIR), then sensitized and challenged all offspring with OVA from 19 to 23 weeks of age. At the end of the ...[more]