Loss of Lung Health from Young Adulthood and Cardiac Phenotypes in Middle Age.

abstract：:In 35 patients fulfilling the criteria of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) of infectious origin, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-soluble receptor (TNF-sR), and interleukin-12 (IL-12), C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and the Acute Physiology, and Chroni...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Presterl E,Staudinger T,Pettermann M,Lassnigg A,Burgmann H,Winkler S,Frass M,Graninger W

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the differential properties of mucous glycoproteins, we produced hypertrophic and metaplastic changes in goblet cells of rat nasal epithelium by intranasal instillation of ovalbumin (OVA) in OVA-sensitized rats, and by intranasal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) instillation. The epithelial mucosubstance was quanti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shimizu T,Hirano H,Shimizu S,Kishioka C,Sakakura Y,Majima Y

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the factors contributing to tuberculosis incidence in the U.S.-born and foreign-born populations in San Francisco, California, and to assess the effectiveness of tuberculosis control efforts in these populations, we performed a population-based molecular epidemiologic study using 367 patients with strains...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Chin DP,DeRiemer K,Small PM,de Leon AP,Steinhart R,Schecter GF,Daley CL,Moss AR,Paz EA,Jasmer RM,Agasino CB,Hopewell PC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined endotoxin exposure and wheezing episodes during the first year of life in a birth cohort of 499 infants with one or both parents having a history of asthma or allergy. We measured endotoxin in settled dust from the baby's bed, bedroom floor, family room, and kitchen floor within the first 3 mo after birth....

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Park JH,Gold DR,Spiegelman DL,Burge HA,Milton DK

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Mast cells have important roles in innate immunity and tissue remodeling but have remained poorly studied in inflammatory airway diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). OBJECTIVES:To perform a detailed histological characterization of human lung mast cell populations at different severiti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Andersson CK,Mori M,Bjermer L,Löfdahl CG,Erjefält JS

更新日期：2010-02-01 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 safety of sputum induction and the reproducibility of measurements in induced sputum in multicenter studies is unknown. We examined the safety of sputum induction in a two-visit, six-center study in 79 subjects with moderate to severe asthma (mean +/- SD FEV(1) 71 +/- 12% predicted, 67% taking inhaled corticostero...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fahy JV,Boushey HA,Lazarus SC,Mauger EA,Cherniack RM,Chinchilli VM,Craig TJ,Drazen JM,Ford JG,Fish JE,Israel E,Kraft M,Lemanske RF,Martin RJ,McLean D,Peters SP,Sorkness C,Szefler SJ,NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Netw

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Defining the biogeography of bacterial populations in human body habitats is a high priority for understanding microbial-host relationships in health and disease. The healthy lung was traditionally considered sterile, but this notion has been challenged by emerging molecular approaches that enable comprehensi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Charlson ES,Bittinger K,Haas AR,Fitzgerald AS,Frank I,Yadav A,Bushman FD,Collman RG

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired lung epithelial Na(+) channel (ENaC) activity at the time of birth results in respiratory distress. To investigate potential mechanisms, the ontogeny and cellular distribution of the alphaENaC subunit mRNA expression was studied in normal, immature, and abnormal (hypoplastic) human fetal lungs using nonradioi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Smith DE,Otulakowski G,Yeger H,Post M,Cutz E,O'Brodovich HM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) and elafin are structurally similar, low-molecular-weight antiproteases produced in the lung. We have developed a simple method for distinguishing the antiprotease activities of SLPI and elafin in lung lavage fluid from those of alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1-AT) that is bas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Nadziejko C,Finkelstein I,Balmes JR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although all the well-recognized muscles of expiration are paralyzed after traumatic transection of the lower cervical cord, tetraplegic subjects can still empty their lungs actively by contracting the clavicular portion of the pectoralis major. It is not known, however, whether contraction of this muscle bundle may r...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Estenne M,Van Muylem A,Gorini M,Kinnear W,Heilporn A,De Troyer A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and epidemiological evidence supports the hypothesis that exposure to mycobacteria has the potential to suppress the development of asthma and/or atopy and there are reports in the Chinese medical literature of repeated vaccination with inactivated BCG being effective in the management of asthma. Forty-th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Shirtcliffe PM,Easthope SE,Cheng S,Weatherall M,Tan PL,Le Gros G,Beasley R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the last few years, increasing evidence of relative adrenal insufficiency in septic shock evoked a reassessment of hydrocortisone therapy. To evaluate the effects of hydrocortisone on the balance between proinflammatory and antiinflammation, 40 patients with septic shock were randomized in a double-blind crosso...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Keh D,Boehnke T,Weber-Cartens S,Schulz C,Ahlers O,Bercker S,Volk HD,Doecke WD,Falke KJ,Gerlach H

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a pulmonary nodular lesion in an immunocompetent patient documented at open lung biopsy to be due to Mycobacterium haemophilum. This organism has recently been recognized as a cause of disease in immunocompromised patients, presenting predominantly as skin lesions, arthritis, and rarely pneumonia....

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： White DA,Kiehn TE,Bondoc AY,Massarella SA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Patients with acute lung injury have impaired function of the lung surfactant system. Prior clinical trials have shown that treatment with exogenous recombinant surfactant protein C (rSP-C)-based surfactant results in improvement in blood oxygenation and have suggested that treatment of patients with severe d...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Spragg RG,Taut FJ,Lewis JF,Schenk P,Ruppert C,Dean N,Krell K,Karabinis A,Günther A

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of childhood lower respiratory infection, yet viable therapies are lacking. Two major challenges have stalled antiviral development: ethical difficulties in performing pediatric proof-of-concept studies and the prevailing concept that the disease is immun...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： DeVincenzo JP,Wilkinson T,Vaishnaw A,Cehelsky J,Meyers R,Nochur S,Harrison L,Meeking P,Mann A,Moane E,Oxford J,Pareek R,Moore R,Walsh E,Studholme R,Dorsett P,Alvarez R,Lambkin-Williams R

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured in rats the effects of 48 h of mechanical ventilation on the weight, contractile properties, and enzymatic profile of the diaphragm, the soleus and the extensor digitorium longus (EDL) muscles. Eighteen animals were randomly divided into a mechanically ventilated (MV, n = 9) group or a control (C, n = 9) g...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Le Bourdelles G,Viires N,Boczkowski J,Seta N,Pavlovic D,Aubier M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for quick, reliable, and noninvasive lung function tests to assess airway obstruction in preschool children both for pediatric pulmonary care as well as for research purposes. We studied feasibility, reproducibility, and validity of measurements of the respiratory system using the interrupter technique...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Merkus PJ,Mijnsbergen JY,Hop WC,de Jongste JC

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Systemic steroids are the standard treatment for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) despite their poor efficacy and disabling side effects. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effectiveness and tolerance of budesonide/formoterol as an alternative tr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bergeron A,Chevret S,Chagnon K,Godet C,Bergot E,Peffault de Latour R,Dominique S,de Revel T,Juvin K,Maillard N,Reman O,Contentin N,Robin M,Buzyn A,Socié G,Tazi A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) is elevated in patients with inflammatory pulmonary diseases and it has attracted increasing interest as a simple, noninvasive marker of airway inflammation. Little is known, however, about factors that might affect eNO in healthy subjects. We measured eNO in 157 healthy 7- to 13-yr-old chil...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Franklin PJ,Taplin R,Stick SM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) induces transient proliferation of alveolar type II cells (AEII) associated with surfactant alterations. To test the hypothesis that homeostasis of intracellular phospholipid stores is maintained under KGF-induced hyperplasia, we (1) collected tissue from adult rat lungs, fixed for lig...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Fehrenbach A,Bube C,Hohlfeld JM,Stevens P,Tschernig T,Hoymann HG,Krug N,Fehrenbach H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although impairment of gas exchange caused by ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) mismatch has been extensively analyzed, there have been no systematic studies focused on determining the distributions of diffusion properties in dose connection with those of VA/Q. We attempted to clarify the simultaneous distributions of VA/Q...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yamaguchi K,Mori M,Kawai A,Takasugi T,Oyamada Y,Koda E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethane is a product of lipid peroxidation as a result of oxidative stress and can be detected in the exhaled air. Oxidative stress plays a role in the pathogenesis of asthma. We measured exhaled ethane in 26 asthmatic subjects (mean age +/- SEM, 38 +/- 8 yr; 15 male, FEV(1) 60 +/- 4%) and compared it with exhaled nitr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Paredi P,Kharitonov SA,Barnes PJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of glutathione-S-transferase (GST) M1, GSTT1, and GSTP1 genotypes on lung function growth were investigated in 1,940 children enrolled in the Children's Health Study as fourth graders (aged 8-11 years) in two cohorts during 1993 and 1996 and were followed annually over a 4-year period. Genotypes for GSTM1 ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Gilliland FD,Gauderman WJ,Vora H,Rappaport E,Dubeau L

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Breathing supplemental oxygen reduces breathlessness during exercise in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Replacing nitrogen with helium reduces expiratory flow resistance and may improve lung emptying. Combining these treatments should be independently effective. OBJECTIVES:Study t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Laude EA,Duffy NC,Baveystock C,Dougill B,Campbell MJ,Lawson R,Jones PW,Calverley PM

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We used various ovalbumin sensitization and challenge protocols to determine the importance of the route of allergen administration and the genetic background in modulating the physiologic, inflammatory, and immunologic features characteristic of allergen-induced asthma. In BALB/c mice, induction of maximal airway hyp...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Lamm WJ,Albert RK,Chi EY,Henderson WR Jr,Lewis DB

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The causal direction between asthma and lung function deficit is unknown, but important for the focus of preventive measures and research into the origins of asthma. OBJECTIVES:To analyze the interaction between lung function development and asthma from birth to 7 years of age. METHODS:The Copenhagen Prospe...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bisgaard H,Jensen SM,Bønnelykke K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not all asthma can be adequately controlled, despite the use of high-dose inhaled corticosteroids. Because cysteinyl-leukotrienes (Cys-LT) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma, we hypothesized that the leukotriene receptor antagonist zafirlukast, in combination with high-doses of inhaled corticosteroids,...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Virchow JC Jr,Prasse A,Naya I,Summerton L,Harris A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a study of the reliability of peak expiratory flow (PEF) monitoring using a portable computerized peak flow meter, the VMX Mini-log, in 17 subjects referred for suspected occupational asthma. Subjects were requested to monitor their PEF six times daily using the VMX Mini-Log for 2 wk at work and at least 10 d ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Quirce S,Contreras G,Dybuncio A,Chan-Yeung M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracheal gas insufflation (TGI) has been recommended as an adjunct to mechanical ventilation in the presence of elevated Pa CO2. Based on our initial clinical experience with continuous flow TGI and pressure control ventilation (PCV), we were concerned about elevation in peak airway pressure as TGI was applied. In a l...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Imanaka H,Kacmarek RM,Ritz R,Hess D

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00