Inhibition of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell growth by hypoxanthine, xanthine, and uric acid.

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：:The role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in an animal model of allergic lung disease was examined by use of an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) and a specific bioassay for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Ovalbumin-sensitized guinea pigs exhibit a marked bronchial hyperreactivity (assessed by airway responsiveness...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Watson ML,Smith D,Bourne AD,Thompson RC,Westwick J

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:The extracellular matrix in asthmatic lungs contains abundant low-molecular-weight hyaluronan, and this is known to promote antigen presentation and allergic responses. Conversely, high-molecular-weight hyaluronan (HMW-HA), typical of uninflamed tissues, is known to suppress inflammation. We investigated whether HMW-H...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gebe JA,Yadava K,Ruppert SM,Marshall P,Hill P,Falk BA,Sweere JM,Han H,Kaber G,Harten IA,Medina C,Mikecz K,Ziegler SF,Balaji S,Keswani SG,Perez VA,Butte MJ,Nadeau K,Altemeier WA,Fanger N,Bollyky PL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hypoxia induces proliferation of human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (hPASMCs), leading to remodeling and pulmonary hypertension, but the mechanism remains unclear. The present study tested the roles of mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel (mitoK(ATP)) and mitochondrial membrane potential (Delt...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hu HL,Zhang ZX,Chen CS,Cai C,Zhao JP,Wang X

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stachybotrys chartarum is a fungal contaminant within the built environment and a respiratory health concern in the United States. The objective of this study was to characterize the mechanisms influencing pulmonary immune responses to repeatedly inhaled S. chartarum. Groups of B6C3F1/N mice repeatedly inhaled viable ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Croston TL,Lemons AR,Barnes MA,Goldsmith WT,Orandle MS,Nayak AP,Germolec DR,Green BJ,Beezhold DH

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte elastase induces apoptosis of lung epithelial cells via alterations in mitochondrial permeability, but the signaling pathways regulating this response remain uncertain. Here we investigated the involvement of proteinase-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1), the transcription factor NF-kappaB, and the protooncogene p...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Suzuki T,Yamashita C,Zemans RL,Briones N,Van Linden A,Downey GP

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Sarcoidosis is characterized by the accumulation of activated lymphocytes in the lungs and other organs and by the spontaneous production of the active form of vitamin D, calcitriol. We hypothesized that calcitriol may modulate the responsiveness of human lymphocytes to the relevant biologic mediator, interleukin-2 (I...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Fraher LJ,Caveney AN,McFadden RG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that interleukin (IL)-23, an IL-12-family cytokine, can be released by certain antigen-presenting cells in response to bacterial pathogens. Recent in vitro studies indicate that this cytokine stimulates a unique subset of CD4 cells, the T helper cell (Th)17 subset, to produce and release the proinflammator...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ivanov S,Bozinovski S,Bossios A,Valadi H,Vlahos R,Malmhäll C,Sjöstrand M,Kolls JK,Anderson GP,Lindén A

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Nrf2 is a leucine zipper transcription factor that protects against oxidant-induced injury. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae is responsible for frequent disease exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is responsible for causing otitis media in young children. We hypothesized that Nrf...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lugade AA,Vethanayagam RR,Nasirikenari M,Bogner PN,Segal BH,Thanavala Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eotaxins-1, -2, and -3 mediate the recruitment of blood-borne eosinophils to allergically inflamed tissues by binding CC chemokine receptor (CCR) 3. Mast cells (MCs) are resident tissue cells that also express CCR3. In the present study, we demonstrate that human (h) MCs in nasal polyps and cultured cord blood-derived...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Price KS,Friend DS,Mellor EA,De Jesus N,Watts GF,Boyce JA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in inflammatory-cell progenitors have been demonstrated in the bone marrow (BM) after inhalation of Ascaris suum in dogs at the time of allergen-induced airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of allergen challenge on trafficking of inflammatory cells and their prog...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Wood LJ,Inman MD,Denburg JA,O'Byrne PM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics and mechanisms of extracellular release of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) from bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells (EC) subjected to anoxia, hypoxia, and hypoxia followed by reoxygenation were examined using various inhibitors of enzymatic systems in intact cells and by direct measurement of H2O2 producti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zulueta JJ,Yu FS,Hertig IA,Thannickal VJ,Hassoun PM

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:A murine model was used to assess the role of cytokines in initiating protective T-cell-mediated immunity in the lung. A pulmonary infection was initiated by intratracheal inoculation of Cryptococcus neoformans (Cne). Previously, we had established that Cne lung clearance was mouse-strain-specific: C.B-17 mice were re...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hoag KA,Lipscomb MF,Izzo AA,Street NE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased airway responsiveness is linked to lung function decline and mortality in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, the genetic contribution to airway responsiveness remains largely unknown. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed using the Illumina (San Diego, CA) Hum...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hansel NN,Paré PD,Rafaels N,Sin DD,Sandford A,Daley D,Vergara C,Huang L,Elliott WM,Pascoe CD,Arsenault BA,Postma DS,Boezen HM,Bossé Y,van den Berge M,Hiemstra PS,Cho MH,Litonjua AA,Sparrow D,Ober C,Wise RA,Conne

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase of airway smooth muscle (ASM) mass in asthma results from hypertrophic and hyperplastic stimuli, and leads to an increase in cellular contractile proteins. However, little evidence correlates the relative contributions of hypertrophic and hyperplastic muscle with functional effects on airway resistance. W...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Plant PJ,North ML,Ward A,Ward M,Khanna N,Correa J,Scott JA,Batt J

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：:Fibroblasts are the major mesenchymal cells present within the interstitium of the lung and are a major source of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which modulates the maintenance of pulmonary microvasculature. Prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) acts on a set of E-prostanoid (EP) receptors that activate multiple sig...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Nakanishi M,Sato T,Li Y,Nelson AJ,Farid M,Michalski J,Kanaji N,Wang X,Basma H,Patil A,Goraya J,Liu X,Togo S,L Toews M,Holz O,Muller KC,Magnussen H,Rennard SI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alveolar epithelium is a critical target for pulmonary viruses and can produce proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines upon viral infection. However, the molecular interactions between virus-infected alveolar epithelial cells and inflammatory cells, including polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), have not been tho...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rzepka JP,Haick AK,Miura TA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are multifunctional proteins that have the capacity to modify cellular activities and to modulate matrix turnover. We demonstrate that TIMP-1 messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein expression are selectively and markedly increased in a murine model of bleomycin-induced pulmona...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Madtes DK,Elston AL,Kaback LA,Clark JG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms behind the accumulation of hyaluronan during bleomycin-induced lung injury in rats were investigated. The stimulatory effects of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and alveolar macrophage (AM)-conditioned media on hyaluronan synthesis in normal rat lung fibroblast cultures were studied as wel...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Teder P,Nettelbladt O,Heldin P

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unresolved inflammation in the lung is thought to elicit loss of endothelial cell (EC) barrier integrity and impaired lung function. We have shown, in a mouse model of shock/sepsis, that neutrophil interactions with resident pulmonary cells appear central to the pathogenesis of indirect acute lung injury (iALI). Norma...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lomas-Neira J,Venet F,Chung CS,Thakkar R,Heffernan D,Ayala A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical models of human conditions including asthma showed the therapeutic potential of Compound A (CpdA), a dissociated glucocorticoid (GC) receptor (GRα) ligand. Whether CpdA inhibits GC resistance, a central feature of severe asthma, has not been addressed. We investigated whether CpdA modulates cytokine-induce...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gavrila A,Chachi L,Tliba O,Brightling C,Amrani Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the pan CD28/cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen (CTL)A-4 antagonist CTLA4 immunoglobulin (Ig) inhibits eosinophilic airway inflammation in Schistosoma mansoni-sensitized and airway-challenged mice. In the present study, the importance of CD28 as well as the individual roles of CD80 and CD8...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Mathur M,Herrmann K,Qin Y,Gulmen F,Li X,Krimins R,Weinstock J,Elliott D,Bluestone JA,Padrid P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to particulate air pollution is associated with increased cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality, although the pathogenic mechanisms are poorly understood. We previously demonstrated that particulate matter (PM) exposure triggers massive oxidative stress in vascular endothelial cells (ECs), resulting in the ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Wang T,Wang L,Zaidi SR,Sammani S,Siegler J,Moreno-Vinasco L,Mathew B,Natarajan V,Garcia JG

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucus hypersecretion is characteristic of chronic airway diseases. However, regulatory mechanisms are poorly understood. Human airway epithelial cells grown on permeable supports at the air-liquid interface (ALI) develop a mucociliary morphology resembling that found in vivo. Such cultures provide a model for studying...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bernacki SH,Nelson AL,Abdullah L,Sheehan JK,Harris A,Davis CW,Randell SH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00