Identification of PCDH1 as a novel susceptibility gene for bronchial hyperresponsiveness.

abstract：RATIONALE:Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is caused by the loss of function of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) combined with hyperactivation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). In the lung, ENaC is responsible for movement of sodium. Hyperactivation of ENaC, which creates an osmoti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Scott DW,Walker MP,Sesma J,Wu B,Stuhlmiller TJ,Sabater JR,Abraham WM,Crowder TM,Christensen DJ,Tarran R

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Airway remodeling is an important feature of chronic asthma that causes irreversible airflow obstruction. Although asthma is considered to be a Th2 disease, the role of T-bet and GATA-3, the key transcription factors for differentiation toward Th1 and Th2 cells, in the pathogenesis of airway remodeling is poo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kiwamoto T,Ishii Y,Morishima Y,Yoh K,Maeda A,Ishizaki K,Iizuka T,Hegab AE,Matsuno Y,Homma S,Nomura A,Sakamoto T,Takahashi S,Sekizawa K

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In mechanically ventilated neonates, the instrumental dead space is a major determinant of total minute ventilation. By flushing this dead space, continuous tracheal gas insufflation (CTGI) may allow reduction of the risk of overinflation. We conducted a randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of CTGI in reducing ai...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Dassieu G,Brochard L,Benani M,Avenel S,Danan C

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review recent advances in the use of corticosteroids (CS) in pediatric lung disease. CS are frequently used, systemically or by inhalation. Their mechanisms of action in pulmonary diseases are ill defined. CS exert direct inhibitory effects on many inflammatory cells through genomic mechanisms. There is a time lag ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： de Benedictis FM,Bush A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that lead to increased production of specific IgG subclasses are still largely unknown. Recent studies suggest that increased IgG4 responses may be related to prolonged antigen exposure. We present data showing that increased IgG4 responses are found under conditions of chronic exposure to Aspergillus fumi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tomee JF,Dubois AE,Koëter GH,Beaumont F,van der Werf TS,Kauffman HF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of methicillin resistance on morbidity and mortality of patients suffering from severe Staphylococcus aureus infections remains highly controversial. We analyzed a retrospective cohort of 97 patients with methicillin-susceptible and 74 patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ventilator-ass...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Combes A,Luyt CE,Fagon JY,Wollf M,Trouillet JL,Gibert C,Chastre J,PNEUMA Trial Group.

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:State-dependent changes in upper airway caliber were studied with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. We hypothesized that changes in airway caliber during sleep in normal subjects would result from positional and dimensional changes in upper airway soft-tissue structures, including the lateral pharyngeal wal...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Trudo FJ,Gefter WB,Welch KC,Gupta KB,Maislin G,Schwab RJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although contraction of human isolated bronchi is mediated mainly by tachykinin NK2 receptors, NK1 receptors, via prostanoid release, contract small-size (approximately 1 mm in diameter) bronchi. Here, we have investigated the presence and biological responses of NK1 receptors in medium-size (2-5 mm in diameter) human...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Amadesi S,Moreau J,Tognetto M,Springer J,Trevisani M,Naline E,Advenier C,Fisher A,Vinci D,Mapp C,Miotto D,Cavallesco G,Geppetti P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplant (LTx) recipients have a low peak work rate, peak oxygen consumption (V O2peak), and early lactate threshold on incremental exercise. We hypothesized that LTx recipients have reduced oxidative function and altered fiber type proportion in peripheral skeletal muscle. Seven stable LTx recipients and seven...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wang XN,Williams TJ,McKenna MJ,Li JL,Fraser SF,Side EA,Snell GI,Walters EH,Carey MF

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Corticosteroids are the antiinflammatory treatment of choice in asthma. Treatment guidelines are mainly symptom-driven but symptoms are not closely related to airway inflammation. The fraction of nitric oxide in exhaled air (FENO) is a marker of airway inflammation in asthma. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated whether t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Pijnenburg MW,Bakker EM,Hop WC,De Jongste JC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a key role in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. OBJECTIVES:There are five major EMT regulatory genes (Snai1, Slug, Zeb1, Zeb2, and Twist1) involved in EMT. We hypothesized that germline variants in these genes may in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yang L,Yang X,Ji W,Deng J,Qiu F,Yang R,Fang W,Zhang L,Huang D,Xie C,Zhang H,Zhong N,Ran P,Zhou Y,Lu J

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The interleukin-1 cluster on human chromosome 2q12-2q14 harbors various promising candidate genes for asthma and other inflammatory diseases. We conducted a systematic association study with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in candidate genes situated in this cluster. Single-marker, two-locus and three-l...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gohlke H,Illig T,Bahnweg M,Klopp N,André E,Altmüller J,Herbon N,Werner M,Knapp M,Pescollderungg L,Boner A,Malerba G,Pignatti PF,Wjst M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The inadequacy of effector T-cell response in containment of tubercle bacilli is believed to result in the development of disseminated forms of tuberculosis (TB), such as miliary tuberculosis (MTB). Regulatory T cells (Treg) plausibly play a critical role in the immunopathogenesis of disseminated TB by suppre...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sharma PK,Saha PK,Singh A,Sharma SK,Ghosh B,Mitra DK

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilation was measured in 31 difficult-to-wean patients while pressure support (PS) was reduced by 5 cm H2O every 20 min. Weaning had to be aborted in 14 of 31 patients (Group F) because they met predefined distress criteria. The remaining 17 patients who were able to complete the "weaning test" (Group S) had larger...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stroetz RW,Hubmayr RD

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic investigation has established an association between exposure to particulate matter (PM) and human health in the Utah Valley. Reduction of particle mass during the temporary closure of a local steel mill was associated with diminished morbidity and mortality. We tested the hypothesis that the biologic ef...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ghio AJ,Devlin RB

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold-induced pulmonary disease is difficult to diagnose, especially, in the case in which interstitial pneumonia appears in the course of gold therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. We analyzed the literature to define the clinical features and prognosis of gold-induced pulmonary disease, and to identify those features tha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tomioka R,King TE Jr

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Diaphragm atrophy and dysfunction have been reported in humans during mechanical ventilation, but the prevalence, causes, and functional impact of changes in diaphragm thickness during routine mechanical ventilation for critically ill patients are unknown. OBJECTIVES:To describe the evolution of diaphragm th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Goligher EC,Fan E,Herridge MS,Murray A,Vorona S,Brace D,Rittayamai N,Lanys A,Tomlinson G,Singh JM,Bolz SS,Rubenfeld GD,Kavanagh BP,Brochard LJ,Ferguson ND

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) is a growth factor that is implicated in fibrosis of many organs. The purpose of this study was to determine the sequential levels of TGF-beta1 in the pleural fluid of rabbits that had undergone empyema induction, as fibrosis of the pleural space develops. Thirty-seven rabb...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sasse SA,Jadus MR,Kukes GD

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple tools for discrimination of lung tissues can be useful in a fast machine-aided diagnosis, for example, by tumor-specific microarrays. We demonstrate that an easy ratio technique, based on the expression levels of only two genes differentially expressed in lung tumor and normal lung samples, allows discriminatio...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hofmann HS,Hansen G,Burdach S,Bartling B,Silber RE,Simm A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The effects of prenatal cigarette smoke (CS) exposure and hypoxemia on cardiorespiratory control have been investigated in full-term infants. However, few data are available in preterm infants, who form a particularly vulnerable population, with developmentally immature cardiorespiratory control. OBJECTIVES:...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Schneider J,Mitchell I,Singhal N,Kirk V,Hasan SU

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to the development of asthma and other atopic diseases is known to be associated with genetic components, and several candidate genes have been reported to be linked to atopy in Caucasian populations. We conducted a study of linkage between asthma and markers on chromosomes 5q31-q33 and 11q13 in 68 Japa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Noguchi E,Shibasaki M,Arinami T,Takeda K,Maki T,Miyamoto T,Kawashima T,Kobayashi K,Hamaguchi H

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:17β-Estradiol (E2) attenuates hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) through an unknown mechanism that may involve estrogen receptors (ER) or E2 conversion to catecholestradiols and methoxyestradiols with previously unrecognized effects on cardiopulmonary vascular remodeli...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lahm T,Albrecht M,Fisher AJ,Selej M,Patel NG,Brown JA,Justice MJ,Brown MB,Van Demark M,Trulock KM,Dieudonne D,Reddy JG,Presson RG,Petrache I

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary tuberculosis, one of the granulomatous diseases, has few serological markers for its activity. Recently, an increased serum level of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was detected in patients with Crohn's disease, also a granulomatous disease. We hypothesized that VEGF might be associated with the pa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Matsuyama W,Hashiguchi T,Matsumuro K,Iwami F,Hirotsu Y,Kawabata M,Arimura K,Osame M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) has been implicated in interstitial lung disease pathobiology and proposed as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. OBJECTIVES:To test associations between serum MMP-7 and lung function, respiratory symptoms, interstitial lung abnormalities...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Armstrong HF,Podolanczuk AJ,Barr RG,Oelsner EC,Kawut SM,Hoffman EA,Tracy R,Kaminski N,McClelland RL,Lederer DJ

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the efficacy of a clarithromycin-containing four-drug regimen for Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) pulmonary disease in 46 patients without acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The patients were 14 males and 32 females with a mean age of 60.9 +/- 11.5 yr. Patients received 10 mg/kg/d of cla...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tanaka E,Kimoto T,Tsuyuguchi K,Watanabe I,Matsumoto H,Niimi A,Suzuki K,Murayama T,Amitani R,Kuze F

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury was produced in C57BL/6 mice by the intratracheal (i.t.) administration of bleomycin (BLM). Following injection of 0.1 U BLM, CD3+ lymphocytes and the production of the T-helper-1 (Th1) lymphokines interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) were increased in lung and lymph nodes. The produ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sharma SK,MacLean JA,Pinto C,Kradin RL

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheezing in childhood is not a single disorder and different wheezing-associated respiratory illnesses have been recently described. We investigated the association between wheezing conditions and familial, pre-, peri-, and postnatal risk factors. We studied 16,333 children, 6 to 7 yr old, enrolled in a population-bas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rusconi F,Galassi C,Corbo GM,Forastiere F,Biggeri A,Ciccone G,Renzoni E

更新日期：1999-11-01 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

abstract：:During Operation Everest III (Comex '97), to assess the consequences of altitude-induced hypoxia, eight volunteers were decompressed in a hypobaric chamber, with a decompression profile simulating the climb of Mount Everest. Cardiac function was assessed using a combination of M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiograp...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Boussuges A,Molenat F,Burnet H,Cauchy E,Gardette B,Sainty JM,Jammes Y,Richalet JP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes have been implicated in the bronchoconstriction caused by indirect stimuli. In the present study we examined the effect of oral ABT-761, a novel 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitor, on exercise- and adenosine (AMP)-induced bronchoconstriction in nine asthmatics. At the four 1-d, single-dose treatment periods,...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Van Schoor J,Joos GF,Kips JC,Drajesk JF,Carpentier PJ,Pauwels RA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00