Virgin coconut oil prevents airway remodeling and recovers tracheal relaxing reactivity by reducing transforming growth factor β expression on asthmatic guinea pig

Virgin coconut oil prevents airway remodeling and recovers tracheal relaxing reactivity by reducing transforming growth factor β expression on asthmatic guinea pig

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease with many patients failing to respond appropriately to pharmacotherapy. Thus, virgin coconut oil (VCO) can be an alternative therapy. Guinea pigs were divided into control (Ctrl), chronic allergic lung inflammation (Asth), Asth treated with dexamethasone (Ast...

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Main Authors: Luiz Henrique César Vasconcelos, Maria da Conceição Correia Silva, Alana Cristina Costa, Giuliana Amanda de Oliveira, Iara Leão Luna de Souza, Rubens da Silva Araújo, Adriano Francisco Alves, Fabiana de Andrade Cavalcante, Bagnólia Araújo da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-11-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
Subjects:
Airways
Lung inflammation
Relaxing reactivity
Remodeling
TGF-beta
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464624005462
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