Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-5 activate STAT5 and induce CIS1 mRNA in human peripheral blood eosinophils.

abstract：:Semaphorins are a large family of proteins originally identified as axon guidance cues that play a crucial role in neural development. They are also ubiquitously expressed beyond the nervous system and contribute to regulation of essential cell functions, such as cell migration, proliferation, and adhesion. Binding of...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Movassagh H,Khadem F,Gounni AS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal lung structure is maintained by the presence of mesenchymal cells and their extracellular matrix products. The slow normal turnover of these cells is disrupted in fibrotic disorders, resulting in the in situ accumulation of mesenchymal cells and their extracellular matrix leading to a progressive alveolar wall ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Vignaud JM,Allam M,Martinet N,Pech M,Plenat F,Martinet Y

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix glycoprotein, fibronectin, stimulates the proliferation of non-small cell lung carcinoma in vitro through α5β1 integrin receptor-mediated signals. However, the true role of fibronectin and its receptor in lung carcinogenesis in vivo remains unclear. To test this, we generated mouse Lewis lung carcinoma cell...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Roman J,Ritzenthaler JD,Roser-Page S,Sun X,Han S

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Wheeze is a common symptom in infants, but not all wheezers develop asthma. Indeed, up to 50% of wheezing children outgrow their symptoms by school age. How to predict if early wheeze will become asthma is still a matter of vivid debate. In this work, we sought to assess the clinical and pathological factors that migh...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bonato M,Bazzan E,Snijders D,Tinè M,Biondini D,Turato G,Balestro E,Papi A,Cosio MG,Barbato A,Baraldo S,Saetta M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A defining feature of acute lung injury (ALI) is the increased lung vascular permeability and alveolar flooding, which leads to associated morbidity and mortality. Specific therapies to alleviate the unremitting vascular leak in ALI are not currently clinically available; however, our prior studies indicate a protecti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zhao Y,Gorshkova IA,Berdyshev E,He D,Fu P,Ma W,Su Y,Usatyuk PV,Pendyala S,Oskouian B,Saba JD,Garcia JG,Natarajan V

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum contains a number of polypeptide growth factors, hormones, and soluble matrix components and may influence the state of differentiation of epithelial cells in general and of alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) in particular. To evaluate the influence of sera on the transition from the type II toward the type I cell ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Borok Z,Hami A,Danto SI,Zabski SM,Crandall ED

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway epithelial cells cultured at the air-liquid interface possess highly differentiated functions and structures compared with the cells cultured under immersion. We examined the oxidative metabolism and glycolysis in cow tracheal epithelial cells on Days 3, 6, 10, and 13, cultured under three different conditions:...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kondo M,Tamaoki J,Sakai A,Kameyama S,Kanoh S,Konno K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal disorder resulting from the progressive remodeling of lungs, with no known effective treatment. Although transforming growth factor (TGF)-β has a well-established role in lung fibrosis, clinical experience with neutralizing antibodies to TGF-β has been disappointing, and ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Das S,Kumar M,Negi V,Pattnaik B,Prakash YS,Agrawal A,Ghosh B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix, in particular, collagens. Two IPF therapeutics, nintedanib and pirfenidone, decelerate lung function decline, but their underlying mechanisms of action are poorly understood. In this study, we sought to analyze their ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Knüppel L,Ishikawa Y,Aichler M,Heinzelmann K,Hatz R,Behr J,Walch A,Bächinger HP,Eickelberg O,Staab-Weijnitz CA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-9 has recently been shown to play an important role in allergic disease because its expression is strongly associated with the degree of airway responsiveness and the asthmatic-like phenotype. IL-9 is a pleiotropic cytokine that is active on many cell types involved in the allergic immune response. Mu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Louahed J,Toda M,Jen J,Hamid Q,Renauld JC,Levitt RC,Nicolaides NC

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:We examined the potential of several epithelial-derived factors to enhance neutrophil activation and survival. Neutrophils incubated in the presence of supernatants from nasal-derived primary epithelial cultures had significantly increased survival compared with neutrophils cultured in media alone. Of the cytokines re...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Daffern PJ,Jagels MA,Hugli TE

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is characterized by appearance of eosinophils in the airway. Eosinophils purified from the airway 48 h after segmental antigen challenge are described as exhibiting greater adhesion to albumin-coated surfaces via an unidentified beta2 integrin and increased expression of alphaMbeta2 (CD11b/18) compared with pur...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Barthel SR,Jarjour NN,Mosher DF,Johansson MW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of eosinophils by microbe-derived molecules via Toll-like receptors (TLR) potentially provides the link between microbe-induced innate immune responses and the exacerbation of allergic inflammation. We investigated the expression of TLRs and the effect of their ligands on human eosinophils. Expression of TL...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Wong CK,Cheung PF,Ip WK,Lam CW

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the p53 gene have been implicated to play an important role in the development of various human cancers. To evaluate the importance of p53 in lung cancer, a transgenic mouse model was established by utilizing the Clara cell secretory protein (CCSP) promoter to target the expression of a dominant-negative ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tchou-Wong KM,Jiang Y,Yee H,LaRosa J,Lee TC,Pellicer A,Jagirdar J,Gordon T,Goldberg JD,Rom WN

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At birth, the mammalian lung is still immature. The alveoli are not yet formed and the interairspace walls contain two capillary layers which are separated by an interstitial core. After alveolarization (first 2 postnatal weeks in rats) the alveolar septa mature: their capillary layers merge, the amount of connective ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Schittny JC,Paulsson M,Vallan C,Burri PH,Kedei N,Aeschlimann D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking and aging are major risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. An unsolved question is whether elderly lungs are particularly vulnerable to cigarette smoke (CS) exposure. In this study, we used a mouse model to test the hypothesis that aging increases the susceptibility to CS-induced pul...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Moriyama C,Betsuyaku T,Ito Y,Hamamura I,Hata J,Takahashi H,Nasuhara Y,Nishimura M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury (ALI) is characterized by pulmonary inflammation and edema. Innate immune cells (e.g., neutrophils and macrophages) are major contributors to inflammation in ALI. Less is known regarding the role of T cells. We examined the effects of rapamycin on inflammation in a LPS-induced murine model of ALI. Ra...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Nakajima T,Lin KW,Li J,McGee HS,Kwan JM,Perkins DL,Finn PW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:German cockroach extract synergistically regulates tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced interleukin (IL)-8 expression in human airway epithelial cells. The IL-8 promoter contains nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB, activating protein (AP)-1, and NF for IL-6 (NF-IL6) transcription factor binding regions. Because coc...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Page K,Hughes VS,Odoms KK,Dunsmore KE,Hershenson MB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke (CS) is the main causative factor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Current research supports the concept that airway inflammation is central to the development and progression of the disease. Studies have demonstrated that neutrophils are increased in COPD lungs and that neutrophil-asso...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Cardini S,Dalli J,Fineschi S,Perretti M,Lungarella G,Lucattelli M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A greater understanding of the regulatory processes contributing to lung development could help ameliorate morbidity and mortality in premature infants and identify individuals at risk for congenital and/or chronic lung diseases. Genomics technologies have provided rich gene expression datasets for the developing lung...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kho AT,Bhattacharya S,Mecham BH,Hong J,Kohane IS,Mariani TJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a method to harvest and culture Clara cells isolated from guinea pig lungs. Their identity was confirmed by the presence of CC16kD protein specific for these cells; we studied their capacity to generate endothelin 1 (ET-1). Using monoclonal antibody and immunofluorescence techniques, ET-1 was localiz...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Laporte J,D'Orléans-Juste P,Sirois P

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) phosphorylate and regulate cytoskeletal components of contractile cells and have been implicated in integrin-mediated adhesion. In this study, we examined the contributions of adherence, cell flattening, and cytoskeletal reorganization to adhesion-induced ERK activation in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Heuertz RM,Hamann KJ,Hershenson MB,Leff AR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the contribution of the leukocyte function-associated antigen (LFA-1) in a murine model of lung inflammation determined by exposure to the thermophilic actinomycete Faeni rectivirgula. The exposure generated a large influx of cells in the bronchoalveolar space and in the lung parenchyma, as seen from enhan...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Denis M,Bisson D

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nitric oxide (NO) is known to inhibit vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, the subcellular molecular mechanisms involved with the inhibitory signal transduction pathways are uncertain. We investigated the effect of exogenous NO on cell proliferation and the expression of p53, p21, and phosphorylated p42...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Mizuno S,Kadowaki M,Demura Y,Ameshima S,Miyamori I,Ishizaki T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of protective immunity to mycobacterial infection in the lung remain poorly defined. In this study, T-cell subset expansion and cytokine expression in bronchoalveolar spaces, lung parenchyma, and mediastinal lymph nodes of mice infected intratracheally with Mycobacterium bovis-Calmette-Guerin bacillus (BCG)...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Fulton SA,Martin TD,Redline RW,Henry Boom W

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:Endotoxin lipopolysaccharide and the cytokines, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1 (IL-1), are known to protect adult rats against O2 toxicity. However, whether the effect of endotoxin is mediated by these cytokines is not clear. We have previously demonstrated that depletion of 84% rat alveolar macrophages...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tang G,White JE,Lumb PD,Lawrence DA,Tsan MF

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin has been used as first-line treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes, and is reported to reduce cancer risk and progression by activating the liver kinase B1 (LKB1)-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway. Cisplatin remains the main drug for treating advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. However, drug r...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lin CC,Yeh HH,Huang WL,Yan JJ,Lai WW,Su WP,Chen HH,Su WC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00