Abstracts & Publications:

Studies related to the effects of air pollutants on juvenile and adult asthma

Abstracts:

2000    Evans, M.J., L.S. Van Winkle, M.V. Fanucchi, C. Fleschner, V. Wong and C.G. Plopper.   Focal changes in the tracheal basement membrane zone of house dust mite sensitized rhesus monkeys.   American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 161(3):A275.

2000    Evans, M.J., L.S. Van Winkle, M.V. Fanucchi, V. Wong, D. Hyde and C.G. Plopper.   Lateral intercellular space of tracheal epithelium of house dust mite sensitized rhesus monkeys.   American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 161(3):A778.

2000   Gershwin, L.J., A.M. Omlor, L.A. Miller, E.S. Schelegle, B.K. Tarkington, D.M. Hyde and C.G. Plopper.   A model of asthma in the rehsus monkey: immunology.   American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 161(3):A838.

2000    Plopper, C., L. Van Winkle, M. Fanucchi, M. Evans, A. Buckpitt and R. Wu.   Alterations in the epithelial/mesenchymal throphic unit of conducting airways in rhesus monkeys exposed to house dust mite allergen.   The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal 14(4):A302.

2000    Schelegle, E.S., L.J. Gershwin, W. F. Walby, L.A. Miller, B.K. Tarkington and C.G. Plopper.   A model of asthma in the rhesus monkey: airway inflammation and responsiveness.   American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 161(3):A838.

2000   Van Winkle, L.S., M.J. Evans, M.V. Fanucchi, C.D. Brown, J.A. Shimizu and C.G. Plopper.   Epithelial cell proliferation in house dust mite sensitized rhesus monkeys.   American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 161(3):A777.

2001   Evans, M.J., L.A. Miller, M.V. Fanucchi, L.S. Van Winkle, C. Fleschner, L.J. Gershwin and C.G. Plopper.   Distribution of substance P in the epithelial-mesenchymal trophic unit of house dust mite sensitized rhesus monkeys.   American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 163(5):A827.

Publications:

2001 Plopper, C.G., A. Buckpitt, M. Evans, L. Van Winkle, M. Fanucchi, S. Smiley-Jewell, J. Lakritz, J. West, G. Lawson, R. Paige, L. Miller and D. Hyde.   Factors modulating the epithelial response to toxicants in tracheobronchial airways.   Toxicology 160:173-180.

2001  Schelegle, E.S., L.J. Gershwin, L.A. Miller, M.V. Fanucchi, L.S. Van Winkle, J.P. Gerriets, W.F. Walby, A.M. Omlor, A.R. Buckpitt, B.K. Tarkington, V.J. Wong, J.P. Joad, K.E. Pinkerton, R. Wu, M.J. Evans, D.M. Hyde and C.G. Plopper.   Animal Model: Allergic asthma induced in rhesus monkeys by house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farinae).   American Journal of Pathology 158:333-341.

2002   Kott, K.S., K.E. Pinkerton, J.M. Bric, C.G. Plopper, K.P. Avadhanam and J.P. Joad.   Methacholine responsiveness of proximal and distal airways of monkeys and rats using videomicrometry.   Journal of Applied Physiology 92(3):989-996.