Regulated production of the T helper 2-type T-cell chemoattractant TARC by human bronchial epithelial cells in vitro and in human lung xenografts.

abstract：:Gene therapy is the treatment of any disorder or pathophysiologic state based upon the transfer of genetic information. The lung represents a major target of gene therapy for the treatment of genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. Other diseases are also being targeted, including...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Curiel DT,Pilewski JM,Albelda SM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interleukin-8 (IL-8) are inflammatory cytokines produced by alveolar macrophages (AMs) and implicated in sepsis-related adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Preliminary findings from clinical trials suggest that aerosolized ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Thomassen MJ,Meeker DP,Antal JM,Connors MJ,Wiedemann HP

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP-3) has emerged as a key mediator of inflammation. Recently, we reported that the resolution of inflammation is impaired in Timp3(-/-) mice after bleomycin-induced lung injury. Here, we demonstrate that after LPS instillation (another model of acute lung injury), Timp3(-/-...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gill SE,Gharib SA,Bench EM,Sussman SW,Wang RT,Rims C,Birkland TP,Wang Y,Manicone AM,McGuire JK,Parks WC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of lung cancer has evolved from classic cytogenetic studies and the use of restriction fragment length polymorphisms to encompass the definition of specific genetic abnormalities associated with this disease. Activation of the dominant class of oncogenes is frequent, with...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Viallet J,Minna JD

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure nicotine impairs macrophage killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), but it is not known whether the nicotine component in cigarette smoke (CS) plays a role. Moreover, the mechanisms by which nicotine impairs macrophage immunity against MTB have not been explored. To neutralize the effects of nicotine in CS e...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bai X,Stitzel JA,Bai A,Zambrano CA,Phillips M,Marrack P,Chan ED

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously characterized dog mastocytoma cells propagated in nude mice. We have established two of these lines (C1 and C2) in continuous culture. Freshly disaggregated mastocytoma cells were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME)-H16 mixed with 50% Ham's F12 and supplemented with histidine and 5%...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： DeVinney R,Gold WM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway epithelial cell defenses to viral infections are often compromised in disease or injury. Danger molecules, including ATP, are released during infection and contribute to nucleotide receptor-dependent inflammatory responses, largely through P2X(7). Although respiratory epithelium has been shown to express a vari...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Shi L,Manthei DM,Guadarrama AG,Lenertz LY,Denlinger LC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β(2)-Adrenoceptor (β2AR) agonists are the most effective class of bronchodilators and a mainstay of asthma management. The first potent β2AR agonist discovered and widely used in reversing the airway constriction associated with asthma exacerbation was the endogenous activator of the β2AR, epinephrine. In this study, ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Thanawala VJ,Forkuo GS,Al-Sawalha N,Azzegagh Z,Nguyen LP,Eriksen JL,Tuvim MJ,Lowder TW,Dickey BF,Knoll BJ,Walker JK,Bond RA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper 2 (Th2)-like cytokines are thought to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of airway inflammation in atopic asthma, leading to bronchial hyperresponsiveness. To investigate the role of the principal Th2 cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) in asthma, we examined the allergen-induced changes in airway morphology a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Brusselle G,Kips J,Joos G,Bluethmann H,Pauwels R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geldanamycin is a benzoquinone ansamycin with multiple pharmacologic properties. Recent data demonstrated that geldanamycin conferred protection in an animal model of inflammation-associated acute lung injury. In the current study, we investigated the effects of geldanamycin on interleukin (IL)-8 gene expression and n...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Malhotra V,Shanley TP,Pittet JF,Welch WJ,Wong HR

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a single exposure of animals to ozone (O3) can induce protection or adaptation to the acute injurious effects of a subsequent O3 challenge. Although a number of mechanisms have been proposed to account for this response, none appear to be fully explanatory. We examined the role interle...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： McKinney WJ,Jaskot RH,Richards JH,Costa DL,Dreher KL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface airway epithelium is frequently injured by noxious inhaled agents, epithelial wound repair may be an important process by which the epithelial barrier integrity is maintained. To evaluate the role of surface airway cells in the wound repair process, we developed an in vitro wounding model of human nasal epithe...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zahm JM,Chevillard M,Puchelle E

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neutrophils play critical roles in innate immunity, in excess these cells cause severe tissue damage. Thus, neutrophil activation must be tightly regulated to prevent indiscriminant damage. Previously, we reported that mice lacking matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) 7 are protected from lung injury owing to marke...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gill SE,Nadler ST,Li Q,Frevert CW,Park PW,Chen P,Parks WC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia infections are frequent causes of respiratory illness, particularly pneumonia in infants, and are linked to permanent reductions in lung function and the induction of asthma. However, the immune responses that protect against early-life infection and the mechanisms that lead to chronic lung disease are incom...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Starkey MR,Nguyen DH,Brown AC,Essilfie AT,Kim RY,Yagita H,Horvat JC,Hansbro PM

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Important characteristics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) include airway and vascular remodeling, the molecular mechanisms of which are poorly understood. We assessed the role of fibroblast growth factors (FGF) in pulmonary vascular remodeling by examining the expression pattern of FGF-1, FGF-2, and th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kranenburg AR,De Boer WI,Van Krieken JH,Mooi WJ,Walters JE,Saxena PR,Sterk PJ,Sharma HS

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:The purpose of this review is to give a comprehensive overview of transgenic mouse lines suitable for studying gene function and cellular lineage relationships in lung development, homeostasis, injury, and repair. Many of the mouse strains reviewed in this Perspective have been widely shared within the lung research c...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rawlins EL,Perl AK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucus obstruction is a key feature of many inflammatory airway diseases. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are released upon neutrophil stimulation and consist of extracellular chromatin networks studded with cytotoxic proteins. When released in the airways, these NETs can become part of the airway mucus. We hypot...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Linssen RS,Chai G,Ma J,Kummarapurugu AB,van Woensel JBM,Bem RA,Kaler L,Duncan GA,Zhou L,Rubin BK,Xu Q

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is necessary for normal postnatal lung development and may underlie the structural lung damage that follows hyperoxic exposure. To determine the individual roles of VEGF receptors (VEGFR) 2 and 1 on postnatal lung growth, neonatal mice were treated with neutralizing antibodies...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： McGrath-Morrow SA,Cho C,Cho C,Zhen L,Hicklin DJ,Tuder RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been speculated that neutrophils deploy proteases to digest subendothelial matrix as they migrate from the bloodstream. Direct evidence for the involvement of proteases in neutrophil transendothelial migration is, however, lacking. To address this issue we used transmission electron microscopy to verify th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Mackarel AJ,Cottell DC,Russell KJ,FitzGerald MX,O'Connor CM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the effect of the novel retinoid 6-[3-(1-adamantyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]-2-naphthalene carboxylic acid (AHPN/CD437) on the growth of human lung carcinoma cell lines. AHPN inhibits the proliferation of all cell lines tested, irrespective of the lung tumor type, in a concentration- and time-de...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Adachi H,Preston G,Harvat B,Dawson MI,Jetten AM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NFU1 is a mitochondrial protein that is involved in the biosynthesis of iron-sulfur clusters, and its genetic modification is associated with disorders of mitochondrial energy metabolism. Patients with autosomal-recessive inheritance of the NFU1 mutation G208C have reduced activity of the respiratory chain Complex II ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Niihori M,Eccles CA,Kurdyukov S,Zemskova M,Varghese MV,Stepanova AA,Galkin A,Rafikov R,Rafikova O

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes and alveolar macrophages accumulating in the lower respiratory tract of patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis are known to be activated to produce several cytokines, presumably leading to granuloma formation within the lung. We hypothesized that these cells produce colony-stimulating factors (CSFs), which ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Itoh A,Yamaguchi E,Kuzumaki N,Okazaki N,Furuya K,Abe S,Kawakami Y

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is an inflammatory cytokine produced by many cell types which may contribute to the pathophysiology of a variety of lung diseases. In this study we have used Ro 45-2081 (a soluble receptor composed of the human p55 TNF receptor and human heavy-chain immunoglobulin G) to explore the role of ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gater PR,Wasserman MA,Paciorek PM,Renzetti LM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated mechanically induced cell-to-cell Ca2+ signaling in a preparation of rabbit tracheal epithelium close to its in vivo condition. We used confocal microscopy to analyze changes in intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in intact ciliated tracheal mucosal explants loaded with the Ca2+-indicato...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Felix JA,Chaban VV,Woodruff ML,Dirksen ER

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils were found to demonstrate chemotactic responses to pepsinized human placental type IV collagen and its purified aminoterminal 7S domain. The maximal chemotactic responses occur at approximately 400 ng/ml and approximately 30 ng/ml of type IV collagen and 7S collagen, respectively, and are similar in magnit...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Senior RM,Hinek A,Griffin GL,Pipoly DJ,Crouch EC,Mecham RP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asthmatic lung is prone to respiratory viral infections that exacerbate the symptoms of the underlying disease. Recent work has suggested that a deficient T-helper cell type 1 response in early life may lead to these aberrant antiviral responses. To study the development of long-term dysregulation of innate respon...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Spalluto CM,Singhania A,Cellura D,Woelk CH,Sanchez-Elsner T,Staples KJ,Wilkinson TMA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a novel signaling gasotransmitter in the respiratory system, may have antiinflammatory properties in the lung. We examined the preventive and therapeutic effects of H2S on ozone-induced features of lung inflammation and emphysema. C57/BL6 mice were exposed to ozone or filtered air over 6 weeks....

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Li F,Zhang P,Zhang M,Liang L,Sun X,Li M,Tang Y,Bao A,Gong J,Zhang J,Adcock I,Chung KF,Zhou X

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung structure undergoes rapid remodeling during late gestation as a functional respiratory unit is formed. To determine the role of collagen turnover in this process, particularly the basement membrane component, we studied the degradation of collagen in a series of fetal rats from day 18 of gestation to full term. D...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Arden MG,Spearman MA,Adamson IY

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00