Interleukin-2-induced increased airway responsiveness and lung Th2 cytokine expression occur after antigen challenge through the leukotriene pathway.

abstract：RATIONALE:The clinical management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains a major challenge due to lack of effective drug therapy or accurate indicators for disease progression. Fibrocytes are circulating mesenchymal cell progenitors that are involved in tissue repair and fibrosis. OBJECTIVES:To test the hypoth...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Moeller A,Gilpin SE,Ask K,Cox G,Cook D,Gauldie J,Margetts PJ,Farkas L,Dobranowski J,Boylan C,O'Byrne PM,Strieter RM,Kolb M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:An increasing number of persons, exposed to high altitude for leisure, sport, or work, may suffer from severe high-altitude illness. OBJECTIVES:To assess, in a large cohort of subjects, the association between physiological parameters and the risk of altitude illness and their discrimination ability in a ris...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Richalet JP,Larmignat P,Poitrine E,Letournel M,Canouï-Poitrine F

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) have increased the diagnostic yield of bronchoscopic diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions. However, the role of combining these modalities to overcome each individual technique's limitations and, consequently, to further increas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Eberhardt R,Anantham D,Ernst A,Feller-Kopman D,Herth F

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:We developed clonal cell lines of human bronchial smooth muscle origin by retroviral transduction of temperature-sensitive simian virus 40 large tumor (T) antigen. These cells show increased growth potential at 33 degrees C, but on shift to the nonpermissive temperature (39 degrees C), they show diminished or arrested...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zhou L,Li J,Goldsmith AM,Newcomb DC,Giannola DM,Vosk RG,Eves EM,Rosner MR,Solway J,Hershenson MB

更新日期：2004-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The effects of high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) strictly depend on lung recruitability, which varies widely during acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Unfortunately, increasing PEEP may lead to opposing effects on two main factors potentially worsening the lung injury, that is, alveolar st...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Caironi P,Cressoni M,Chiumello D,Ranieri M,Quintel M,Russo SG,Cornejo R,Bugedo G,Carlesso E,Russo R,Caspani L,Gattinoni L

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of portable chest radiographs (CXRs) may be affected by changes in ventilation, particularly when patients are mechanically ventilated. Synchronization of the CXR with the ventilatory cycle should limit the influence of respiratory variation on the appearance of the CXR. This study evaluates the effect ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Langevin PB,Hellein V,Harms SM,Tharp WK,Cheung-Seekit C,Lampotang S

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that neutrophil-derived proteinases play a major role in lung tissue damage in cystic fibrosis (CF). Most previous studies have focused on serine proteinases such as neutrophil elastase, providing no information on the extent to which metalloproteinases participate in proteolytic pr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Delacourt C,Le Bourgeois M,D'Ortho MP,Doit C,Scheinmann P,Navarro J,Harf A,Hartmann DJ,Lafuma C

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brush cells, also termed tuft, caveolated, multivesicular, and fibrillovesicular cells, are part of the epithelial layer in the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. The cells are characterized by the presence of a tuft of blunt, squat microvilli (approximately 120-140/cell) on the cell surface. The microvilli cont...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Reid L,Meyrick B,Antony VB,Chang LY,Crapo JD,Reynolds HY

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate repair mechanisms in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis, we used mice deficient in gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT-/-), a key enzyme in glutathione (GSH) and cysteine metabolism. Seventy-two hours after bleomycin (0.03 U/g), GGT-/- mice displayed a different inflammatory response to wild-type mice ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pardo A,Ruiz V,Arreola JL,Ramírez R,Cisneros-Lira J,Gaxiola M,Barrios R,Kala SV,Lieberman MW,Selman M

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential role of atypical bacterial infection in the pathogenesis of asthma is a subject of continuing debate. There is an increasing body of literature concerning the association between the atypical bacteria Chlamydophila pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae and asthma pathogenesis; however, many studies invest...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Johnston SL,Martin RJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although numerous reports have described the improvement in PAO2 in patients in the prone position, the underlying mechanism has yet to be determined. Some authors have suggested this phenomenon may be related to an increase in functional residual capacity (FRC); however, no previous studies have described positional ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Numa AH,Hammer J,Newth CJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a treatable sleep disorder that is associated with alterations in glucose metabolism in individuals without diabetes, is a highly prevalent comorbidity of type 2 diabetes. However, it is not known whether the severity of OSA is a predictor of glycemic control in patients with di...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Aronsohn RS,Whitmore H,Van Cauter E,Tasali E

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 50% of patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) are not obese: body mass index (BMI) < 30 kg/m2. We hypothesized that local fat deposition around the upper airway may be different in nonobese patients with SAHS from that in normal subjects with the same body mass. We therefore examined the relatio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mortimore IL,Marshall I,Wraith PK,Sellar RJ,Douglas NJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of two body positions (supine and semirecumbency) on the dynamics of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in 15 patients requiring mechanical ventilation and having a nasogastric tube in place. Samples of gastric contents, pharyngeal and bronchial secretions, and blood were ob...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Orozco-Levi M,Torres A,Ferrer M,Piera C,el-Ebiary M,de la Bellacasa JP,Rodriguez-Roisin R

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most data about the course of occupational asthma after removal from exposure are based upon the longitudinal assessment of employees exposed to substances inducing late asthmatic reactions in bronchial provocation tests. It was the aim of this study to describe the course of immediate-type occupational asthma after a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Merget R,Reineke M,Rueckmann A,Bergmann EM,Schultze-Werninghaus G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Inflammation is now recognized as an integral part of the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In contrast to the sterile airways of normal lungs, bacterial pathogens are often isolated from the airways in stable COPD. This "colonization" of the tracheobronchial tree, currently believ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sethi S,Maloney J,Grove L,Wrona C,Berenson CS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct types of tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNF-R) have been identified (TNF-R55 and TNF-R75). Both TNF-R also exist in soluble forms (TNF-sR), resulting from the release of the extracellular domains (TNF-sR55 and TNF-sR75). TNF-sR may play an important role in vivo as they can bind to TNF alpha and prevent...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Humbert M,Roux-Lombard P,Cerrina J,Magnan A,Simonneau G,Dartevelle P,Galanaud P,Dayer JM,Emilie D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethane is a product of lipid peroxidation as a result of oxidative stress and can be detected in the exhaled air. Oxidative stress plays a role in the pathogenesis of asthma. We measured exhaled ethane in 26 asthmatic subjects (mean age +/- SEM, 38 +/- 8 yr; 15 male, FEV(1) 60 +/- 4%) and compared it with exhaled nitr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Paredi P,Kharitonov SA,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Statin use has been linked to improved lung health in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We hypothesize that statins inhibit allergic airway inflammation and reduce airway hyperreactivity via a mevalonate-dependent mechanism. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether simvastatin attenuates airway inflam...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zeki AA,Franzi L,Last J,Kenyon NJ

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonectomized rats develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) and pulmonary vascular neointimal formation 4 wk after monocrotaline (MCT) administration. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with MCT (60 mg/kg) on Day 7 after left pneumonectomy. Three groups (n = 5) received 40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin (RAD, 2.5 mg/k...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nishimura T,Faul JL,Berry GJ,Veve I,Pearl RG,Kao PN

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Air pollution is a known asthma trigger and has been associated with short-term asthma symptoms, airway inflammation, decreased lung function, and reduced response to asthma rescue medications. OBJECTIVES:To assess a causal relationship between air pollution and childhood asthma using data that address tempo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nishimura KK,Galanter JM,Roth LA,Oh SS,Thakur N,Nguyen EA,Thyne S,Farber HJ,Serebrisky D,Kumar R,Brigino-Buenaventura E,Davis A,LeNoir MA,Meade K,Rodriguez-Cintron W,Avila PC,Borrell LN,Bibbins-Domingo K,Rodriguez-San

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reasoned that a prospective assessment of glucocorticoid withdrawal in subjects with asthma would provide insight into the basis for flares of the disease. We therefore enrolled 25 subjects with moderate persistent asthma and treated them for 30 days with inhaled fluticasone propionate (1,760 microg/day) followed b...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Castro M,Bloch SR,Jenkerson MV,DeMartino S,Hamilos DL,Cochran RB,Zhang XE,Wang H,Bradley JP,Schechtman KB,Holtzman MJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a pulmonary nodular lesion in an immunocompetent patient documented at open lung biopsy to be due to Mycobacterium haemophilum. This organism has recently been recognized as a cause of disease in immunocompromised patients, presenting predominantly as skin lesions, arthritis, and rarely pneumonia....

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： White DA,Kiehn TE,Bondoc AY,Massarella SA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is traditionally diagnosed using overnight polysomnography. Decision rules may provide an alternative to polysomnography. A consecutive series of patients referred to a tertiary sleep center underwent prospective evaluation with the upper airway physical examination protocol, followed by ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tsai WH,Remmers JE,Brant R,Flemons WW,Davies J,Macarthur C

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The impact of asthma on chronic lung function deficits is well known. However, there has been little study of ethnic differences in these asthma-associated deficits. OBJECTIVES:To examine whether there are ethnic differences in the effects of asthma on children's lung function. METHODS:We evaluated the impa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zhang Y,McConnell R,Gilliland F,Berhane K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E-selectin, an early mediator of leukocyte-endothelial adhesion, is expressed on activated endothelium. Soluble E-selectin is present in the supernatant of cytokine-activated endothelial cells and elevated serum levels are found in a variety of inflammatory conditions. We documented elevated E-selectin serum levels in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cummings CJ,Sessler CN,Beall LD,Fisher BJ,Best AM,Fowler AA 3rd

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of the airways of asthmatic individuals causes severe bronchoconstriction, which is in part neurally mediated via the vagus nerve. Local anesthetics are commonly administered to prevent this reflex-induced bronchoconstriction. Therefore, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled prospective study, we tested th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Groeben H,Foster WM,Brown RH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective studies have suggested that combination antibiotic therapy for severe bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia may reduce mortality. We assessed this issue in a prospective, multicenter, international observational study of 844 adult patients with bacteremia due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. The effect of combin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Baddour LM,Yu VL,Klugman KP,Feldman C,Ortqvist A,Rello J,Morris AJ,Luna CM,Snydman DR,Ko WC,Chedid MB,Hui DS,Andremont A,Chiou CC,International Pneumococcal Study Group.

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic inflammation is present in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which has been linked to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We determined the effects of oral and inhaled corticosteroids on serum markers of inflammation in patients with stable COPD. We recruited 41 patients with mild to moderate ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sin DD,Lacy P,York E,Man SF

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00