Clarithromycin inhibits interleukin-13-induced goblet cell hyperplasia in human airway cells.

abstract：:Interleukin-5 (IL-5) is important in the control of differentiation, migration, and activation of eosinophils. In order to study the role of IL-5 in the development of eosinophilic inflammation of the airways, we have used a monoclonal antibody to murine IL-5 (TRFK-5) in a murine model of allergic pulmonary inflammati...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kung TT,Stelts DM,Zurcher JA,Adams GK 3rd,Egan RW,Kreutner W,Watnick AS,Jones H,Chapman RW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical field stimulation (EFS) has previously been shown to induce the release of prostaglandin (PG) E2 from ferret tracheal epithelium. We have now conducted a study to see whether this effect of EFS is due to the activation of nerves or whether it is a non-neural effect. The release of PGE2 and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ullman A,Ciabattoni G,Svedmyr N,Skoogh BE,Löfdahl CG

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:Opiate-like peptides can regulate many cellular functions. We now map [D-Ala(2)]deltorphin I (DADTI)-like immunoreactivity (DADTI-LI) in developing mouse lung and analyze potential functional roles. Most DADTI-LI-positive cells were alveolar cells negative for prosurfactant protein (proSP)-C immunoreactivity. Peak num...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sunday ME,Haley KJ,Emanuel RL,Torday JS,Asokananthan N,Sikorski KA,Tooyama I,Kimura H,Renda T,Erspamer V

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to elucidate the effects of aging on diaphragmatic mitochondrial function. Diaphragm mitochondria were prepared from specific pathogen-free rats aged 7 wk (n = 7), 35 wk (n = 7), and 55 wk (n = 7). The activities of various portions of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, i.e., com...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Torii K,Sugiyama S,Takagi K,Satake T,Ozawa T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant is an apically-secreted surface-active material containing primarily disaturated phosphatidylcholine (DSPtdCho) that is released from alveolar epithelia into the alveolus. Surfactant deficiency is an important aspect of inflammatory lung disease and may result from extravasation of serum lipoproteins into t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Agassandian M,Mathur SN,Zhou J,Field FJ,Mallampalli RK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway epithelial cells produce a number of chemokines, including eotaxins. Among the three known eotaxins, T helper (Th) type 2 cytokines have been observed to induce the expression of eotaxin-3 mRNA. This study investigated the effect of interferon (IFN)-gamma, a Th1 cytokine, on Th2 cytokine-induced eotaxin-3 produ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yamamoto S,Kobayashi I,Tsuji K,Nishi N,Muro E,Miyazaki M,Zaitsu M,Inada S,Ichimaru T,Hamasaki Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to inhibiting proliferation and causing enlargement of bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells in culture, porcine platelet transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) (2 ng/ml) lowered glutathione (GSH) of these cells by 48% after 96 h in culture when GSH levels were normalized for cell counts. This ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： White AC,Das SK,Fanburg BL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary pulmonary hypertension is characterized by increased pulmonary vascular resistance and smooth muscle proliferation. Stable analogs are increasingly being used to treat this disease, although no data exists comparing their effects on proliferation. We therefore investigated the antiproliferative activity of sev...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Clapp LH,Finney P,Turcato S,Tran S,Rubin LJ,Tinker A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes which exhibit core 2 beta1,6 N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (C2GnT) activity play important roles in physiologic processes including the inflammatory response and immune system function, and C2GnT activity is regulated during processes, such as T cell activation and cellular differentiation. In this study, we...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Beum PV,Bastola DR,Cheng PW

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:Identification of the genetic loci underlying asthma in humans has been hampered by variability in clinical phenotype, uncontrolled environmental influences, and genetic heterogeneity. To circumvent these complications, the genetic regulation of asthma-associated phenotypes was studied in a murine model. We characteri...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ewart SL,Kuperman D,Schadt E,Tankersley C,Grupe A,Shubitowski DM,Peltz G,Wills-Karp M

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus attaches primarily to ciliated cells in mature airways epithelium. This process is mediated by a viral envelope glycoprotein (hemagglutinin) that binds to sialic acid-containing receptors in the apical membrane of host cells. The purpose of this study was to determine the cellular distribution of these...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Piazza FM,Carson JL,Hu SC,Leigh MW

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-activating factor (PAF), a proinflammatory lipid mediator, is a potent airway mucin secretagogue. This study assessed the role of protein kinase C (PKC) in PAF-induced mucin release from primary cultures of feline tracheal epithelial cells (FTEC). Mucin secretion was quantitated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Larivée P,Levine SJ,Martinez A,Wu T,Logun C,Shelhamer JH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by a dramatic neutrophil recruitment and repeated Pseudomonas infections in the lungs. To evaluate cytokine releasibility by airway epithelial cells in the context of CF, we studied primary nasal epithelial cells isolated from the upper airways and continuous epithelial cell lines...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bédard M,McClure CD,Schiller NL,Francoeur C,Cantin A,Denis M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific changes in composition and content of lung extracellular matrix (ECM) proteoglycans (PGs) and hyaluronan (HA) have been observed during the acute response to damage in several forms of injury including infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS). These ECM components are thought to modulate the healing respon...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Juul SE,Krueger RC Jr,Scofield L,Hershenson MB,Schwartz NB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species in the genus Pneumocystis can cause severe pneumonia in immune-compromised hosts. The identification of specific targets present in Pneumocystis species, but lacking in mammalian hosts, is paramount to developing new means to treat this infection. One such potential protein is Rtt109, which is a type of histon...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kottom TJ,Han J,Zhang Z,Limper AH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clara cell secretory protein (CCSP), or CC10, is an inhibitor of secretory phospholipase A2 which may be produced by phagocytic cells and by a variety of other cells in the airway. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is capable of activating phospholipases and inducing the expression of a variety of genes in the a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yao XL,Levine SJ,Cowan MJ,Logun C,Shelhamer JH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK; gene code, MYLK) is a multifunctional enzyme involved in isoform-specific nonmuscle (nm) and smooth muscle contraction, inflammation, and vascular permeability, processes directly relevant to asthma pathobiology. In this report, we highlight the contribution of the nm isoform (nmMLCK) ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Wang T,Moreno-Vinasco L,Ma SF,Zhou T,Shimizu Y,Sammani S,Epshtein Y,Watterson DM,Dudek SM,Garcia JG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine TARC is a ligand for the chemokine receptor CCR4 expressed on T helper (Th)2-type CD4 T cells. Allergic airway inflammation is characterized by a local increase in cells secreting Th2-type cytokines. We hypothesized that bronchial epithelial cells may be a source of chemokines known to chemoattract Th2 c...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Berin MC,Eckmann L,Broide DH,Kagnoff MF

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating disease without effective treatment. Despite decades of research and the development of novel treatments, PAH remains a fatal disease, suggesting an urgent need for better understanding of the pathogenesis of PAH. Recent studies suggest that microRNAs (miRNAs) are...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zhou G,Chen T,Raj JU

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-9 has recently been shown to play an important role in allergic disease because its expression is strongly associated with the degree of airway responsiveness and the asthmatic-like phenotype. IL-9 is a pleiotropic cytokine that is active on many cell types involved in the allergic immune response. Mu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Louahed J,Toda M,Jen J,Hamid Q,Renauld JC,Levitt RC,Nicolaides NC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP-3) has emerged as a key mediator of inflammation. Recently, we reported that the resolution of inflammation is impaired in Timp3(-/-) mice after bleomycin-induced lung injury. Here, we demonstrate that after LPS instillation (another model of acute lung injury), Timp3(-/-...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gill SE,Gharib SA,Bench EM,Sussman SW,Wang RT,Rims C,Birkland TP,Wang Y,Manicone AM,McGuire JK,Parks WC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins in the induction of prostacyclin synthesis by stimulated endothelial cells is incompletely understood. We report that sodium fluoride (NaF), a potent activator of cellular guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, affected time- and concentration-dependent generation of prost...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Garcia JG,Dominguez J,English D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxins represent one of the most potent classes of microbial immunoactive components that can cause pulmonary inflammation. The aim of this study was to compare the inflammatory potency of two types of Neisseria meningitidis endotoxins (lipooligosaccharides) in lungs: wild type (hexaacylated, LOS(wt)) and mutant t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hadina S,Weiss JP,McCray PB Jr,Kulhankova K,Thorne PS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) phosphorylate and regulate cytoskeletal components of contractile cells and have been implicated in integrin-mediated adhesion. In this study, we examined the contributions of adherence, cell flattening, and cytoskeletal reorganization to adhesion-induced ERK activation in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Heuertz RM,Hamann KJ,Hershenson MB,Leff AR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nitric oxide (NO) is known to inhibit vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, the subcellular molecular mechanisms involved with the inhibitory signal transduction pathways are uncertain. We investigated the effect of exogenous NO on cell proliferation and the expression of p53, p21, and phosphorylated p42...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Mizuno S,Kadowaki M,Demura Y,Ameshima S,Miyamori I,Ishizaki T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been speculated that neutrophils deploy proteases to digest subendothelial matrix as they migrate from the bloodstream. Direct evidence for the involvement of proteases in neutrophil transendothelial migration is, however, lacking. To address this issue we used transmission electron microscopy to verify th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Mackarel AJ,Cottell DC,Russell KJ,FitzGerald MX,O'Connor CM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00