Interleukin-9 upregulates mucus expression in the airways.

abstract：:Skeletal muscle dysfunction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease negatively impacts quality of life and survival. Cigarette smoking (CS) is the major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and skeletal muscle dysfunction; however, how CS affects skeletal muscle function remains enigmat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chan SMH,Cerni C,Passey S,Seow HJ,Bernardo I,van der Poel C,Dobric A,Brassington K,Selemidis S,Bozinovski S,Vlahos R

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with severe acute and chronic lung diseases develop derangements in gas exchange that may result in increased levels of CO(2) (hypercapnia), the effects of which on human health are incompletely understood. It has been proposed that hypercapnia may have beneficial effects in patients with acute lung injury, a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Vadász I,Hubmayr RD,Nin N,Sporn PH,Sznajder JI

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bronchial asthma, eosinophils found in the airways have an enhanced inflammatory capacity. We hypothesized that, at least in part, changes in functional phenotype are due to the effect of transendothelial migration. To model in vivo eosinophil trafficking to the lung, we cultured human pulmonary microvascular endot...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yamamoto H,Sedgwick JB,Vrtis RF,Busse WW

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated concentrations of CO2 (hypercapnia) lead to alveolar epithelial dysfunction by promoting Na,K-ATPase endocytosis. In the present report, we investigated whether the CO2/HCO3(-) activated soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) regulates this process. We found that hypercapnia increased the production of cyclic adenosi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lecuona E,Sun H,Chen J,Trejo HE,Baker MA,Sznajder JI

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of mechanisms participate in virus-induced asthma. Previously, we described enhanced basophil histamine release (HR) during an experimentally induced rhinovirus infection and after in vitro incubation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) with influenza virus. This study extends our previous observatio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Huftel MA,Swensen CA,Borcherding WR,Dick EC,Hong R,Kita H,Gleich GJ,Busse WW

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkey Clara cell 10 kDa protein (CC10) was purified from monkey lung lavage. This protein showed an apparent molecular weight of about 10 kDa and 5 kDa under non-reducing and reducing conditions, respectively, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. From the amino acid sequence dat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hashimoto S,Nakagawa K,Sueishi K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage elastase (MMP12) is a key mediator of cigarette smoke (CS)-induced emphysema, yet its role in other smoking related pathologies remains unclear. The weight suppressing effects of smoking are a major hindrance to cessation efforts, and MMP12 is known to suppress the vascularization on which adipose tissue gr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tsuji T,Kelly NJ,Takahashi S,Leme AS,Houghton AM,Shapiro SD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the effects of acid exposure with moderate acidity (pH 3.0-5.0) on bactericidal activity of airway surface liquid (ASL), ASL was collected by washing the surface of primary cultures of human tracheal epithelial cells 24 h after treatment with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) adjusted to a pH of 3.0, 4.0, or ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Nakayama K,Jia YX,Hirai H,Shinkawa M,Yamaya M,Sekizawa K,Sasaki H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolides have been shown to be effective in treating diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), although the precise modes of action remain unclear. At sites of airway inflammation, respiratory epithelium is considered an active participant in regulating neutrophil survival. We therefore examined the effect of erythromycin, cl...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yamasawa H,Oshikawa K,Ohno S,Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retention kinetics for insoluble particles that deposit in the lung oftentimes resemble a multicomponent process during alveolar clearance, with each component appearing to follow simple first-order kinetics. Inasmuch as alveolar macrophages (AM) are thought to play an important role in particle removal from the lung,...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lehnert BE,Valdez YE,Tietjen GL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a disease of young women, is characterized by proliferation of immature-appearing smooth-muscle cells (LAM cells) in the lungs and abdomen. LAM cells react with monoclonal antibody HMB45, which recognizes a 100-kD glycoprotein (gp100) originally found in human melanoma cells. ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Matsumoto Y,Horiba K,Usuki J,Chu SC,Ferrans VJ,Moss J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary infection with an exaggerated inflammatory response is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF). The objective of this study was to determine whether differences in the innate immune system underlie the exaggerated immune response in CF. We established a model that recapitulates the...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bruscia EM,Zhang PX,Ferreira E,Caputo C,Emerson JW,Tuck D,Krause DS,Egan ME

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant is an apically-secreted surface-active material containing primarily disaturated phosphatidylcholine (DSPtdCho) that is released from alveolar epithelia into the alveolus. Surfactant deficiency is an important aspect of inflammatory lung disease and may result from extravasation of serum lipoproteins into t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Agassandian M,Mathur SN,Zhou J,Field FJ,Mallampalli RK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of acute lung injury is complex and associated with numerous, chemically diverse precipitating factors. During acute lung injury in mice, one key event is epithelial cell injury that leads to reduced surfactant biosynthesis. We have previously reported that transgenic mice that express transforming growth...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bein K,Wesselkamper SC,Liu X,Dietsch M,Majumder N,Concel VJ,Medvedovic M,Sartor MA,Henning LN,Venditto C,Borchers MT,Barchowsky A,Weaver TE,Tichelaar JW,Prows DR,Korfhagen TR,Hardie WD,Bachurski CJ,Leikauf GD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with systemic hypertension of various etiologies maintain their pulmonary artery pressures within normal limits. We have reported in isolated perfused rat lungs that low basal tone appears to be regulated by nitric oxide (NO)-dependent and -independent mechanisms of soluble guanylate cyclase activation, and s...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Itani MM,Talerico MG,Pino PA,Burke-Wolin T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoxins (LX) are proresolving mediators that augment host defense against bacterial infection. Here, we investigated roles for LX in lung clearance of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans (Cne). After intranasal inoculation of 5,000 CFU Cne, C57BL/6 and C.B-17 mice exhibited strain-dependent differences in Cne...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Colby JK,Gott KM,Wilder JA,Levy BD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by a dramatic neutrophil recruitment and repeated Pseudomonas infections in the lungs. To evaluate cytokine releasibility by airway epithelial cells in the context of CF, we studied primary nasal epithelial cells isolated from the upper airways and continuous epithelial cell lines...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bédard M,McClure CD,Schiller NL,Francoeur C,Cantin A,Denis M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In surgically excised nasal polyps, most epithelial mast cells were formalin sensitive, chloroacetate esterase (CAE) negative, and chymase negative. Thus, this represents a population of mast cells not identified by staining for CAE. On the other hand, most stromal mast cells were formalin resistant and CAE positive, ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kawabori S,Denburg JA,Schwartz LB,Irani AA,Wong D,Jordana G,Evans S,Dolovich J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) release from aortic endothelial cells was studied in the presence of antioxidant enzyme inhibitors, mitochondrial inhibitors, a microsomal cytochrome P-450 inhibitor, and after oxidative stress induced with H2O2 or menadione. Extracellular H2O2 generation was determined spectrofluor...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kinnula VL,Whorton AR,Chang LY,Crapo JD

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that the asthma-associated proinflammatory eicosanoid leukotriene D4 (LTD4) is co-mitogenic with insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) in airway smooth-muscle (ASM) cells in vitro. This synergistic effect of LTD4 and IGF on ASM cell growth involves proteolysis of ASM-produced IGF binding p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rajah R,Nachajon RV,Collins MH,Hakonarson H,Grunstein MM,Cohen P

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally important to elucidate airway epithelial cell lineages and to identify multipotent progenitors as targets for gene therapy. Stem (S) cells are typically present in specialized compartments spatially proximal to their differentiated progeny, but an equivalent paradigm has not been demonstrated in the ai...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Borthwick DW,Shahbazian M,Krantz QT,Dorin JR,Randell SH

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired sphingolipid synthesis is linked genetically to childhood asthma and functionally to airway hyperreactivity (AHR). The objective was to investigate whether sphingolipid synthesis could be a target for asthma therapeutics. The effects of GlyH-101 and fenretinide via modulation of de novo sphingolipid synthesis...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Heras AF,Veerappan A,Silver RB,Emala CW,Worgall TS,Perez-Zoghbi J,Worgall S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of bombesin-like peptides (BLPs) by pulmonary neuroendocrine cells is transiently upregulated during lung development. A functional role for BLPs is supported by their ability to stimulate lung growth and maturation both in vitro and in vivo during the late stages of lung development. In addition, the c...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Aguayo SM,Schuyler WE,Murtagh JJ Jr,Roman J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke-induced apoptosis and necrosis contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The induction of heme oxygenase-1 provides cytoprotection against oxidative stress, and may protect in smoking-related disease. Since mitochondria regulate cellular death, we examined the functional ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Slebos DJ,Ryter SW,van der Toorn M,Liu F,Guo F,Baty CJ,Karlsson JM,Watkins SC,Kim HP,Wang X,Lee JS,Postma DS,Kauffman HF,Choi AM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate mechanisms regulating intra-alveolar coagulation, we studied monolayers of the A549 human lung epithelial cell line. The surface of A549 cells delayed the onset of prothrombin-to-thrombin conversion and prevented total prothrombin consumption in normal plasma compared to plastic cell-free wells. Similar...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Berry L,Andrew M,Post M,Ofosu F,O'Brodovich H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of conditioned medium (CM) generated by human upper airway epithelial (Ep) cells from normal (NN) and inflamed, allergic rhinitis (AR) and nasal polyp (NP) tissues to induce monocytic differentiation of hemopoietic progenitors of the HL-60 myeloid leukemia cell line in vitro. In HL-60 cells cul...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ohtoshi T,Vancheri C,Cox G,Gauldie J,Dolovich J,Denburg JA,Jordana M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that S100 proteins were reduced in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). S100A8/9, which is important in epithelial barrier function, was particularly decreased in elderly patients with CRS. Epithelial expression of S100A8/9 is partly regulated by the IL-6 trans-signaling pathway. The goal of this stud...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Cho SH,Kim DW,Lee SH,Kolliputi N,Hong SJ,Suh L,Norton J,Hulse KE,Seshadri S,Conley DB,Kern RC,Tan BK,Peters A,Grammer LC,Schleimer RP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth factors that operate while the lung remodels in hyperoxia are not known. At the lung periphery, high oxygen levels cause cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia, and this results in a thickening of the alveolar-capillary membrane and the walls of its associated microvessels. The present study examines gene express...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Powell PP,Wang CC,Jones R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been associated with heterozygosity for the Z and S alleles of the alpha1-antitrypsin gene in some studies, but these observations have not been confirmed by others. Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor for COPD and may have been a confounding factor in many of th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sandford AJ,Weir TD,Spinelli JJ,Paré PD

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a rat model of acute lung inflammation induced by intratracheal instillation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), we investigated the kinetics of mRNA expression and the potential cellular sources of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2), interleukin (IL)-1 beta, IL-6, RANTES...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Xing Z,Jordana M,Kirpalani H,Driscoll KE,Schall TJ,Gauldie J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00