Apical and basolateral ATP-induced anion secretion in polarized human airway epithelia.

abstract：:Severe deterioration of surfactant function is noted under conditions of plasma protein leakage into the alveolar space; moreover, fibrinogen has previously been reported to possess strong surfactant inhibitory capacity. Dissolution of alveolar deposits of fibrinogen and fibrin (e.g., hyaline membranes) requires enzym...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Seeger W,Grube C,Günther A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactosylated poly-L-lysine is a nonviral vector that transfers genes into airway epithelial cells, including those from individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). Substitution of 40% of the epsilon-amino groups of poly-L-lysine with lactosyl residues not only provided a ligand for receptor-mediated endocytosis, but also r...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kollen WJ,Schembri FM,Gerwig GJ,Vliegenthart JF,Glick MC,Scanlin TF

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal airway smooth muscle contracts to neural stimulation from early gestation. This study aimed to document the development of the nerves and ganglia within the bronchial tree of the fetal pig lung as the structural correlates for this function. The formation of these structures during lung development (pseudoglandu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Weichselbaum M,Sparrow MP

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-15 has recently been shown to induce the differentiation of functional dendritic cells (DCs) from human peripheral blood monocytes. Since DCs lay in close proximity to epithelial cells in the airway mucosa, we investigated whether airway epithelial cells release IL-15 in response to inflammatory stimuli and thereby...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Regamey N,Obregon C,Ferrari-Lacraz S,van Leer C,Chanson M,Nicod LP,Geiser T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar macrophages (AM) and interstitial macrophages (IM) from rat lungs were characterized with respect to morphology, phagocytosis, adhesion properties, and phenotype. AM were recovered by lung lavage and IM by treatment of the lung tissue with DNAse and collagenase. The AM were enzyme treated in the same way as t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Johansson A,Lundborg M,Sköld CM,Lundahl J,Tornling G,Eklund A,Camner P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma arises from the complex interplay of inflammatory pathways in diverse cell types and tissues. We sought to undertake a comprehensive transcriptomic assessment of the epithelium and airway T cells that remain understudied in asthma and investigate interactions between multiple cells and tissues. Epithelial brush...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Singhania A,Wallington JC,Smith CG,Horowitz D,Staples KJ,Howarth PH,Gadola SD,Djukanović R,Woelk CH,Hinks TSC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major disease of the lungs. It primarily occurs after a prolonged period of cigarette smoking. Chronic inflammation of airways and the alveolar space as well as lung tissue destruction are the hallmarks of COPD. Recently it has been shown that cellular senescence might...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kumar M,Seeger W,Voswinckel R

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is known to be involved in the pathogenesis of various inflammatory diseases, but its role in bleomycin (BLM)-induced lung injury and subsequent fibrotic changes remains to be determined. We evaluated the role of IL-6 in the lung inflammatory changes induced by BLM using wild-type (WT) and IL-6-de...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Saito F,Tasaka S,Inoue K,Miyamoto K,Nakano Y,Ogawa Y,Yamada W,Shiraishi Y,Hasegawa N,Fujishima S,Takano H,Ishizaka A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In these studies, we examined signaling through the transcription factor STAT5 in human peripheral blood eosinophils after treatment with granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) or interleukin (IL)-5. In response to either cytokine, STAT5 was rapidly tyrosine phosphorylated and acquired interferon ga...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bhattacharya S,Stout BA,Bates ME,Bertics PJ,Malter JS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory process plays a crucial role in the onset and progression of several lung pathologies, including cystic fibrosis (CF), and the involvement of NF-κB is widely recognized. The specific inhibition of NF-κB by decoy oligonucleotides delivered within the lung may be beneficial, although rationally designed...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： De Stefano D,Coletta C,Bianca Rd,Falcone L,d'Angelo I,Ungaro F,Quaglia F,Carnuccio R,Sorrentino R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar epithelial cells are directly exposed to acute and chronic fluctuations in alveolar oxygen tension. Previously, we found that the oxygen-binding protein hemoglobin is expressed in alveolar Type II cells (ATII). Here, we report that ATII cells also express a number of highly specific transcription factors and ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Grek CL,Newton DA,Spyropoulos DD,Baatz JE

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated serine/threonine kinase R (PKR) is well characterized as an essential component of the innate antiviral response. Recently, PKR has been implicated in Toll-like receptor (TLR) signal transduction in response to bacterial cell wall components. Its contribution to pulmonary immu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Cabanski M,Steinmüller M,Marsh LM,Surdziel E,Seeger W,Lohmeyer J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive, scarring lung disease characterized by fibroblast accumulation and deposition of collagen. Factors that promote growth and/or survival of fibroblasts are potential therapeutic targets. Methionine aminopeptidase 2 (MetAP2), a member of the aminopeptidase family of p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kass D,Bridges RS,Borczuk A,Greenberg S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described overproduction of interferon (IFN)-gamma by lung lymphocytes in mice with silicosis (11% of cells in air-control versus 19% of cells from silica-exposed mice; Davis and colleagues, Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 1999;20:813-824). We hypothesized that the increased IFN-gamma production might be du...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Davis GS,Pfeiffer LM,Hemenway DR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidants in cigarette smoke inhibit pathogen recognition receptor function and phagocytosis, but the molecular basis of this inhibition remains obscure. We sought to identify the inhibitory mechanisms that impair alveolar macrophage function. Balb/c mice were acutely exposed to four cigarettes for 4 hours before treat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bozinovski S,Vlahos R,Zhang Y,Lah LC,Seow HJ,Mansell A,Anderson GP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with bacteria and viruses such as adenovirus are a feature of chronic lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), and may be instrumental in the generation of disease exacerbations. We have previously shown in acute models that elafin (a lung natural chemotactic molecule for macroph...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Roghanian A,Williams SE,Sheldrake TA,Brown TI,Oberheim K,Xing Z,Howie SE,Sallenave JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb)-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) are being developed as a potential therapy for increasing tissue oxygenation, yet they have not reached their full potential because of unwanted hemodynamic side effects (vasoconstriction, low cardiac output, and oxygen delivery) due in part to nitric oxide (NO) scavenging...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Irwin D,Buehler PW,Alayash AI,Jia Y,Bonventura J,Foreman B,White M,Jacobs R,Piteo B,TissotvanPatot MC,Hamilton KL,Gotshall RW

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Endothelin, an endothelium-derived vasoconstrictor peptide, has recently been reported to exist in airway epithelial cells. To elucidate a possible role of endothelin on epithelial functions, we studied the effects of this peptide on ciliary beat frequency (CBF) and electrical properties of canine cultured tracheal ep...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tamaoki J,Kanemura T,Sakai N,Isono K,Kobayashi K,Takizawa T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of extracellular ATP on the proliferation and synthesis of DNA by guinea pig alveolar macrophages (AM). AM proliferated spontaneously in vitro, their number doubling in 72 h. Such proliferation was completely inhibited by adding 1 mM ATP to the culture. The inhibition was dose dependent. ATP al...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Nakanishi M,Kawasaki M,Ogino H,Yoshida M,Yagawa K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury induced by reactive oxygen gases such as ozone (O(3)) is focal and site-selective. To define patterns of acute epithelial injury along intrapulmonary airways, we developed a new analytic approach incorporating labeling of permeable cells, airway microdissection, and laser scanning confocal microscopy...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Postlethwait EM,Joad JP,Hyde DM,Schelegle ES,Bric JM,Weir AJ,Putney LF,Wong VJ,Velsor LW,Plopper CG

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is believed to contribute to nonimmune host defense within the alveoli and distal airways of the lung. SP-D molecules can bind to specific carbohydrates on the surface of bacterial, fungal, and viral organisms and can also interact with membrane glycoconjugates expressed by alveolar macroph...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Crouch EC,Persson A,Griffin GL,Chang D,Senior RM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin (ET)-1 causes long-lasting vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling by interacting with specific G-protein-coupled receptors in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs), and thus plays an important role in the pathophysiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The two-pore domain K(+) channel, TASK-1,...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tang B,Li Y,Nagaraj C,Morty RE,Gabor S,Stacher E,Voswinckel R,Weissmann N,Leithner K,Olschewski H,Olschewski A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, investigators demonstrated associations between fine particulate matter (PM)-associated metals and adverse health effects. Residual oil fly ash (ROFA), a waste product of fossil fuel combustion from boilers, is rich in the transition metals Fe, Ni, and V, and when released as a fugitive particle, is an impor...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Farraj AK,Hazari MS,Haykal-Coates N,Lamb C,Winsett DW,Ge Y,Ledbetter AD,Carll AP,Bruno M,Ghio A,Costa DL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is produced in lung epithelial cells by nitric oxide synthases (NOSs), which can enhance inflammation and edema formation. The inducible NOS (iNOS, type II NOS) has been shown to be increased in lung disorders such as asthma. Therapy for asthma includes antiinflammatory agents such as corticosteroids...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Robbins RA,Jinkins PA,Bryan TW,Prado SC,Milligan SA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is an alarmin released from macrophages after infection or inflammation and is a biomarker of lung disease progression in patients with cystic fibrosis. We reported that 2-O, 3-O desulfated heparin (ODSH) inhibits the release of HMGB1 from murine macrophages triggered by neutrophil el...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zheng S,Kummarapurugu AB,Afosah DK,Sankaranarayanan NV,Boothello RS,Desai UR,Kennedy T,Voynow JA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mast cell secretion has been intensively studied because of its pivotal role in allergic reactions and its advantages as a physiologic model, the molecular composition of the secretory machine is virtually unknown. In view of the guanine-nucleotide dependency of mast cell exocytosis and the participation of R...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tuvim MJ,Adachi R,Chocano JF,Moore RH,Lampert RM,Zera E,Romero E,Knoll BJ,Dickey BF

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zn may have an important protective role in the respiratory epithelium and Zn deficiency may enhance airway inflammation and epithelial damage. The effects of mild nutritional Zn deficiency on airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and airway inflammation in mice sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin (OVA) to induce an a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Truong-Tran AQ,Ruffin RE,Foster PS,Koskinen AM,Coyle P,Philcox JC,Rofe AM,Zalewski PD

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00