Астма у кошек: литература
Alexander AG, Barnes NC, Kay AB, et al: Clinical response to cyclosporine in chronic severe asthma is associated with reduction in serum soluble interleukin-2 receptor concentrations. Eur Respir J 8:574, 1995. The therapeutic effects of cyclosporine in patients with severe asthma are documented.
Beasley R, Roche WR, Roberts JA, et al: Cellular events in the bronchi in mild asthma and after bronchial provocation. Am Rev Respir Dis 139:806, 1989. This was one of the first reports to demonstrate inflammation in airways of mild asthmatics, even when the symptoms of asthma are not present.
Bradley BL, Azzawi M, Jacobson B, et al: Eosinophils, T lymphocytes, mast cells, neutrophils, and macrophages in bronchial biopsies from atopic asthma: Comparison with atopic non-asthma and normal controls and relationship to bronchial hyperresponsiveness. J Allergy Clin Immunol 88:661, 1991. This was one of the first reports to demonstrate that airway inflammation is related to airway hyperresponsiveness.
Dye JA, McKiernan ВС, Rozanski EA, et al: Bronchopulmonary disease in the cat: Historical, physical, radiographic, clinicopathologic and pulmonary functional evaluation of 24 affected and 15 healthy cats. J Vet Intern Med 10:385, 1996. This is the only thorough review of naturally occurring bronchial disease in cats, and documents airway hyperresponsiveness in feline asthma.
Padrid PA: Animal models of asthma. In: Liggett SB, Meyers DA, eds: The Genetics of Asthma: Lung Biology in Health and Disease. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1996, pp 211-233. This is a comprehensive review of the advantages and disadvantages of multiple animal species used in asthma research.
Padrid PA, Cozzi P, Leff AR: Cyclosporine A attenuates the development of chronic airway hyperresponsiveness and histologic alterations in immune-sensitized cats. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 154:1812,1996. Experimentally induced asthma is completely inhibited in cats treated with maximal doses of cyclosporin A for 6 weeks.
Padrid PA, Mitchell RW, Ndukwu IM, et al: Cyproheptadine-induced attenuation of type-1 immediate hypersensitivity reactions of airway smooth muscle from immune-sensitized cats. Am J Vet Res 56:109, 1995. This article describes the first report that serotonin within feline mast cells contracts feline airway smooth muscle in vitro and that cyproheptadine blockade of serotonin receptors prevents airway smooth muscle contraction in vitro.
