Developmental changes in tropoelastin gene expression in the rat lung studied by in situ hybridization.

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：:Tissue-specific transgene expression using tetracycline (tet)-regulated promoter/operator elements has been used to revolutionize our understanding of cellular and molecular processes. However, because most tet-regulated mouse strains use promoters of genes expressed in multiple tissues, to achieve exclusive expressio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tata PR,Pardo-Saganta A,Prabhu M,Vinarsky V,Law BM,Fontaine BA,Tager AM,Rajagopal J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong correlation exists between smoking and lung cancer; however, susceptibility to lung cancer among smokers is not uniform. Similarly, mice show differential susceptibility to the tobacco carcinogen nitrosamine 4-(methyl-nitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), which produces lung tumors in A/J but not in C3...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Razani-Boroujerdi S,Sopori ML

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular events involved in generating the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction response are not clearly understood, in part because of the multitude of factors that alter pulmonary vascular tone. The goal of the present studies was to determine if a cell culture preparation containing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) c...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Murray TR,Chen L,Marshall BE,Macarak EJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant protein (SP)-D, a 43-kD multifunctional collagen-like lectin, is synthesized and secreted by the airway epithelium. SP-D knockout (SP-D [-/-]) mice exhibit an increase in the number and size of airway macrophages, peribronchiolar inflammation, increases in metalloproteinase activity, and development of emph...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Atochina EN,Beers MF,Hawgood S,Poulain F,Davis C,Fusaro T,Gow AJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular endothelium plays an important role in the regulation of inflammatory responses after trauma and hemorrhage. Interactions of neutrophils with endothelial cells (ECs) contribute to the activation of specific EC responses involved in innate immunity. We have previously reported that oxidants derived from th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Xiang M,Yin L,Li Y,Xiao G,Vodovotz Y,Billiar TR,Wilson MA,Fan J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments described herein define a unique program of polarization of suspended human eosinophils stimulated with IL-5 family cytokines. We found that eosinophil granules and the nucleus move in opposite directions to form, respectively, a granular compartment and the nucleopod, a specialized uropod occupied by ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Han ST,Mosher DF

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common cause of pneumonia. Previous studies have documented an important role for Toll-like receptors (TLRs) expressed by myeloid cells in the recognition of K. pneumoniae and the initiation of a protective immune response. Lung epithelial cells also express TLRs and can participate in innat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Anas AA,Claushuis TAM,Mohan RA,Christoffels VM,Aidinis V,Florquin S,Van't Veer C,Hou B,de Vos AF,van der Poll T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lungs are repeatedly exposed to inhaled toxic insults, such as smoke, diesel exhaust, and microbes, which elicit cellular stress responses. The phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α by one of four stress-sensing kinases triggers a pathway called the integrated stress response that helps protec...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： van 't Wout EF,Hiemstra PS,Marciniak SJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of cultured epithelial cells and supernatants on resting membrane potential and excitatory neuroeffector transmission in smooth muscle cells of dog trachea and bronchioles. The mean resting membrane potential of the mucosa-free tracheal smooth muscle cells was -59.5 +/- 1.5 mV (+/- SD). App...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Matsumoto K,Aizawa H,Inoue R,Hamano S,Ikeda S,Xie Z,Hirata M,Hara N,Ito Y

更新日期：1994-03-01 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

abstract：:The pathological hallmarks of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease of premature infants, include inflammation, arrested alveolarization, and dysregulated angiogenesis. Severe BPD is often complicated by pulmonary hypertension (PH) that significantly increases morbidity and mortality. Glycogen synth...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hummler SC,Rong M,Chen S,Hehre D,Alapati D,Wu S

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:The protease-antiprotease imbalance that is characteristic of most inflammatory lung disorders depends on the spatial-temporal regulation of active inhibitor and protease concentrations in lung secretions. We have studied the competition between the three main serine proteases from human neutrophil primary granules in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Korkmaz B,Poutrain P,Hazouard E,de Monte M,Attucci S,Gauthier FL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the lung is repeatedly subjected to injury by pathogens and toxicants, maintenance of pulmonary homeostasis requires rapid repair of its epithelial surfaces. Ciliated bronchiolar epithelial cells, previously considered as terminally differentiated, underwent squamous cell metaplasia within hours after bronchiola...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Park KS,Wells JM,Zorn AM,Wert SE,Laubach VE,Fernandez LG,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung fibrosis has been postulated to be mediated by the production of macrophage-derived growth factors that are both mitogenic and chemotactic for fibroblasts. In vitro studies from our laboratory demonstrated that alveolar and interstitial macrophages treated with iron and asbestos release platelet-derived growth fa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Osornio-Vargas AR,Kalter VG,Badgett A,Hernández-Rodríguez N,Aguilar-Delfín I,Brody AR

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:Alveolar macrophages (AM) express gelatinase B, a member of the matrix metalloproteinase family involved in the degradation and remodeling of extracellular matrix components. We evaluated the expression of gelatinase B in the course of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) by studying alveolar macrophages in culture AM ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lemjabbar H,Gosset P,Lechapt-Zalcman E,Franco-Montoya ML,Wallaert B,Harf A,Lafuma C

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of mechanisms participate in virus-induced asthma. Previously, we described enhanced basophil histamine release (HR) during an experimentally induced rhinovirus infection and after in vitro incubation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) with influenza virus. This study extends our previous observatio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Huftel MA,Swensen CA,Borcherding WR,Dick EC,Hong R,Kita H,Gleich GJ,Busse WW

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is associated with high neonatal mortality from lung hypoplasia and persistent pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNEC) produce calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a potent vasodilator. We previously reported altered distribution of CGRP-positive PNEC in f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： IJsselstijn H,Hung N,de Jongste JC,Tibboel D,Cutz E

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Epidemiologic studies have linked gestational vitamin D deficiency to respiratory diseases, although mechanisms have not been defined. We hypothesized that antenatal vitamin D deficiency would impair airway development and alveolarization in a mouse model. We studied the effect of antenatal vitamin D deficiency by ind...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Saadoon A,Ambalavanan N,Zinn K,Ashraf AP,MacEwen M,Nicola T,Fanucchi MV,Harris WT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the response of an epithelial barrier to a moderate but sustained oxidative stress, we cultured monolayers of Madin Darby canine kidney cells on microporous filters and exposed them to the hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase (HX-XO) reaction. The transepithelial permeability coefficient for mannitol (Pm) was ass...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rochat T,Burkhard C,Finci-Cerkez V,Meda P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that von Hippel-Lindau protein (pVHL) expression is elevated in human and mouse fibrotic lungs and that overexpression of pVHL stimulates fibroblast proliferation. We sought to determine whether loss of pVHL in fibroblasts prevents injury and fibrosis in mice that are treated with bleomycin. We genera...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zhou Q,Chen T,Zhang W,Bozkanat M,Li Y,Xiao L,van Breemen RB,Christman JW,Sznajder JI,Zhou G

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：:The complement system plays a critical role in immune responses against pathogens. However, its identity and regulation in the lung are not fully understood. This study aimed to explore the role of tripartite motif protein (TRIM) 72 in regulating complement receptor (CR) of the Ig superfamily (CRIg) in alveolar macrop...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Nagre N,Cong X,Terrazas C,Pepper I,Schreiber JM,Fu H,Sill JM,Christman JW,Satoskar AR,Zhao X

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stimulation of the airway epithelium, as would occur during bronchoconstriction, is a potent stimulus and can activate profibrotic pathways. We used DNA microarray technology to examine gene expression in compressed normal human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBE). Compressive stress applied continuously over...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chu EK,Cheng J,Foley JS,Mecham BH,Owen CA,Haley KJ,Mariani TJ,Kohane IS,Tschumperlin DJ,Drazen JM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine is an important mediator in the pathogenesis of asthma. Variation in genes along the histamine production, response, and degradation pathway may be important in predicting response to antihistamines. We hypothesize that differences exist among single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes of the histamine ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Anvari S,Vyhlidal CA,Dai H,Jones BL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00