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Mediators of Inflammation
Volume 2013, Article ID 290565, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/290565
Research Article

Pharmacological Inhibition of p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases Affects KC/CXCL1-Induced Intraluminal Crawling, Transendothelial Migration, and Chemotaxis of Neutrophils In Vivo

Najia Xu, Mokarram Hossain, and Lixin Liu

Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E5, Canada

Received 7 November 2012; Revised 15 January 2013; Accepted 29 January 2013

Academic Editor: Dennis D. Taub

Copyright © 2013 Najia Xu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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