Kidney-Tonifying Recipe Can Repair Alterations in Adrenal Medullary Chromaffin Cells in Asthmatic Rats

Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that renal deficiency is a causative factor of asthma, and tonifying kidney drugs are believed to be an appropriate and beneficial treatment. The adrenal medullary chromaffin cells (AMCC) transition to the neuronal phenotype is known to occur in asthma, as evide...

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Main Authors: Cheng-Ping Hu, Jun-Tao Zou, Ye-Qiang Zou, Xiao-Zhao Li, Jun-Tao Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/542621