Linkage analysis of chromosome 12 markers in Italian families with atopic asthmatic children.

abstract：RATIONALE:Cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is one of the most common infections after lung transplantation, is associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction and worse post-transplantation survival. Current approaches for at-risk patients include a fixed duration of antiviral prophylaxis despite the associated cost and...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Snyder LD,Chan C,Kwon D,Yi JS,Martissa JA,Copeland CA,Osborne RJ,Sparks SD,Palmer SM,Weinhold KJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease of very low birth weight infants, associated with oxygen therapy, barotrauma, and/or infections. Improved medical care has led to a paradoxically increased incidence of BPD due to greater infant survival. Early prediction of BPD has proven challenging. Increas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cullen A,Van Marter LJ,Allred EN,Moore M,Parad RB,Sunday ME

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation with its attendant life-long immunosuppression contributes to bone loss and its sequelae, fractures and kyphosis, in patients with lung disease, many of whom already suffer from severe osteoporosis. Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are one of the most severely affected groups. We conducted a con...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Aris RM,Lester GE,Renner JB,Winders A,Denene Blackwood A,Lark RK,Ontjes DA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Clinical benefits of fixed-dose 100-mg subcutaneous (SC) mepolizumab in prednisone-dependent patients are modest when sputum eosinophilia is not adequately controlled. OBJECTIVES:This study compared treatment response of weight-adjusted intravenous (IV) reslizumab in patients previously treated with 100-mg S...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mukherjee M,Aleman Paramo F,Kjarsgaard M,Salter B,Nair G,LaVigne N,Radford K,Sehmi R,Nair P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism responsible for the increased air-space permeability in cigarette smokers is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the acute and chronic effects of cigarette smoking on epithelial permeability, inflammation, and oxidant stress in the air spaces of smokers. Fourteen cigarette smokers underwent 99mT...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Morrison D,Rahman I,Lannan S,MacNee W

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Fisher 344 rats (n = 25) were inoculated intrapleurally with a single 20-mg dose of (JM-100) fibrous glass. The mean length (2.2 microns) and width (0.15 microns) of the fibrous glass particles was within respirable range. Following inoculation, the rats were killed at timed intervals ranging from 2 to 430 d fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fraire AE,Greenberg SD,Spjut HJ,Roggli VL,Dodson RF,Cartwright J,Williams G,Baker S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway remodeling may lead to irreversible loss of lung function in asthma. The impact of childhood asthma, airway responsiveness, atopy, and smoking on airway remodeling was investigated in a birth cohort studied longitudinally to age 26. A low postbronchodilator ratio of forced exhaled volume in 1 second (FEV1) to v...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rasmussen F,Taylor DR,Flannery EM,Cowan JO,Greene JM,Herbison GP,Sears MR

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans exhibit an acute inflammatory response in the lungs after controlled laboratory exposure to ozone. The present study was designed to test whether biomarkers of inflammation are detectable in humans exposed to ozone and associated copollutants under natural conditions outdoors. Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kinney PL,Nilsen DM,Lippmann M,Brescia M,Gordon T,McGovern T,El-Fawal H,Devlin RB,Rom WN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) mediates important components of signal transduction pathways underlying neuronal excitability and modulates respiratory timing mechanisms in adult rats. To determine ventilatory effects of systemic PKC inhibition during development, whole-body plethysmographic recordings were conducted in 2-3-d...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bandla HP,Simakajornboon N,Graff GR,Gozal D

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Inhibition of pharyngeal motoneurons accompanies REM sleep and is a cause of hypoventilation and obstructive sleep apnea in humans. One explanation posits that the neurotransmitters glycine and γ-aminobutyric acid are responsible for REM sleep motor inhibition. However, blockade of that mechanism at cranial m...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Grace KP,Hughes SW,Horner RL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive pressure ventilation with large VTs has been shown to cause release of cytokines, including macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2), a functional equivalent of human interleukin-8. The mechanisms regulating ventilation-induced cytokine production are unclear. Based on our previous in vitro model of lung cel...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Li LF,Yu L,Quinn DA

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal immune system discriminates between potentially harmful and harmless foreign proteins. The basis for this differential response may be related to the conditions of antigen presentation by antigen-presenting cells, as determined by their phenotype or activation state. How these conditions affect specific...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Smith KM,Eaton AD,Finlayson LM,Garside P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, tenascin (Tn) expression was studied in 51 cases of different types of fibrotic lung disorders originating for years 1981 to 1995. Our aim was to test if accumulation of Tn at the site of lung injury in usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) could correlate with the prognosis. Lung biopsies taken fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kaarteenaho-Wiik R,Tani T,Sormunen R,Soini Y,Virtanen I,Pääkkö P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a dental appliance (DA) is usually evaluated in a single mandibular position reached after several weeks and corresponding to either improvement of symptoms or intolerance to any further advancement. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of one-night evaluation of the efficacy of a DA. Th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pételle B,Vincent G,Gagnadoux F,Rakotonanahary D,Meyer B,Fleury B

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) has been implicated in interstitial lung disease pathobiology and proposed as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. OBJECTIVES:To test associations between serum MMP-7 and lung function, respiratory symptoms, interstitial lung abnormalities...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Armstrong HF,Podolanczuk AJ,Barr RG,Oelsner EC,Kawut SM,Hoffman EA,Tracy R,Kaminski N,McClelland RL,Lederer DJ

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that lead to increased production of specific IgG subclasses are still largely unknown. Recent studies suggest that increased IgG4 responses may be related to prolonged antigen exposure. We present data showing that increased IgG4 responses are found under conditions of chronic exposure to Aspergillus fumi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tomee JF,Dubois AE,Koëter GH,Beaumont F,van der Werf TS,Kauffman HF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term cognitive impairment is common among ICU survivors, but its natural history remains unclear. In this systematic review, we report the frequency of cognitive impairment in ICU survivors across various time points after ICU discharge that were extracted from 46 of the 3,350 screened records. Prior studies used...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Honarmand K,Lalli RS,Priestap F,Chen JL,McIntyre CW,Owen AM,Slessarev M

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with increased vascular resistance in children and adults. Persistent increased vascular resistance damages vascular endothelial cells-a marker of which is increased platelet activation.Objectives: This study compared whole-blood impedance platelet aggregation ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kontos A,Willoughby S,Lushington K,Martin J,Wabnitz D,Dorrian J,Kennedy D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine kinase signaling cascade plays a pivotal role in the activation of inflammatory cells. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of genistein, a broad-spectrum protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor, on airway inflammation in an in vivo guinea pig model of asthma. Guinea pigs were actively s...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Duan W,Kuo IC,Selvarajan S,Chua KY,Bay BH,Wong WS

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show a poor response to corticosteroids. This has been linked to a reduction of histone deacetylase-2 as a result of oxidative stress and is reversed by theophylline. OBJECTIVES:To determine the role of phosphoinositide-3-kinase-delta (PI3K-δ) on the...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： To Y,Ito K,Kizawa Y,Failla M,Ito M,Kusama T,Elliott WM,Hogg JC,Adcock IM,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) is caused by an immune response to antigen inhalation and is characterized by variable histopathological and clinical features. A subset of subjects with CHP have usual interstitial pneumonia and appear to be clinically similar to subjects with idiopathic pulmonary...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Furusawa H,Cardwell JH,Okamoto T,Walts AD,Konigsberg IR,Kurche JS,Bang TJ,Schwarz MI,Brown KK,Kropski JA,Rojas M,Cool CD,Lee JS,Wolters PJ,Yang IV,Schwartz DA

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute sustained hypoxia causes an early rise in ventilation, followed by a reduction in ventilation ("roll off") after several minutes to levels below the peak but above baseline. The underlying mechanism(s) of this biphasic response is unclear. Hypoxia induces changes in the release and metabolic turnover of glutamat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Soto-Arape I,Burton MD,Kazemi H

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Important features of both stable and acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are skeletal muscle weakness and wasting. Limb muscle dysfunction during an exacerbation has been linked to various adverse outcomes, including prolonged hospitalization, readmission, and mortality. The contributin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Abdulai RM,Jensen TJ,Patel NR,Polkey MI,Jansson P,Celli BR,Rennard SI

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Fluid accumulation in the legs and its overnight redistribution into the neck appears to play a causative role in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in sedentary men. Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) promotes fluid accumulation in the legs that can be counteracted by compression stockings. OBJECTIVES:To test th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Redolfi S,Arnulf I,Pottier M,Lajou J,Koskas I,Bradley TD,Similowski T

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is increasing and has been linked to obstructive lung diseases including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Recent studies suggest that vitamin D deficiency is associated with reduced lung function. The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and lung fu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zosky GR,Berry LJ,Elliot JG,James AL,Gorman S,Hart PH

更新日期：2011-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Neutrophils are key players in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and increased numbers of neutrophils are present in sputum and lung tissue of patients with COPD. Interestingly, immunoglobulin free light chains (IgLC) are able to prolong the life of neutrophils; therefore, IgLC may contribute to t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Braber S,Thio M,Blokhuis BR,Henricks PA,Koelink PJ,Groot Kormelink T,Bezemer GF,Kerstjens HA,Postma DS,Garssen J,Kraneveld AD,Redegeld FA,Folkerts G

更新日期：2012-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Guidelines for vasopressor titration suggest a universal target-mean arterial pressure (MAP) >65 mm Hg. The implications for patients with premorbid low/high blood pressure are unknown.Objectives: To investigate the relationship between premorbid blood pressure and vasopressor duration for patients with sho...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gershengorn HB,Stelfox HT,Niven DJ,Wunsch H

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is a significant disease with survival rates remaining poor despite numerous therapeutic advances during the last 30 years. Understanding lung cancer pathogenesis through murine modeling may improve future human therapies, and new data indicate that mutations within different endogenous stem cells situated...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Giangreco A,Groot KR,Janes SM

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathogen complicating postsurgical care. OBJECTIVES:To test the effect of sterile laparotomy (LAP) on pulmonary clearance of S. aureus in a murine model. METHODS:Control and LAP mice were infected intranasally with 10(8) cfu of S. aureus. Microbial clearance, pulmonary leuko...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Olszewski MA,Falkowski NR,Surana R,Sonstein J,Hartman A,Moore BB,Huffnagle GB,Toews GB

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently have albuminuria (indicative of renal endothelial cell injury) associated with hypoxemia. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether (1) cigarette smoke (CS)-induced pulmonary and renal endothelial cell injury explains the association between albumin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Polverino F,Laucho-Contreras ME,Petersen H,Bijol V,Sholl LM,Choi ME,Divo M,Pinto-Plata V,Chetta A,Tesfaigzi Y,Celli BR,Owen CA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00