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Prophylactic benefits of systemically delivered simvastatin treatment in a house dust mite challenged murine model of allergic asthma

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Systemically delivered statins can blunt airway inflammation in ovalbumin‐challenged mice. However, in asthma clinical trials the beneficial effects of introducing oral statins are not compelling. We have invetigated this discrepancy… Click to show full abstract

Systemically delivered statins can blunt airway inflammation in ovalbumin‐challenged mice. However, in asthma clinical trials the beneficial effects of introducing oral statins are not compelling. We have invetigated this discrepancy using a clinically relevant murine model of allergic asthma, and by including a prophylactic study arm.

Keywords: prophylactic benefits; model allergic; murine model; systemically delivered; allergic asthma

Journal Title: British Journal of Pharmacology
Year Published: 2018

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