Regulation of lung branching morphogenesis by bombesin-like peptides and neutral endopeptidase.

abstract：:The pathological hallmark lesions in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are the fibroblastic foci, in which fibroblasts are thought to be involved in the tissue remodeling, matrix deposition, and cross-talk with alveolar epithelium. Recent evidence indicates that some fibroblasts in fibrosis may be derived from bone marrow...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hashimoto N,Phan SH,Imaizumi K,Matsuo M,Nakashima H,Kawabe T,Shimokata K,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between hyperpnea-induced mucosal injury, bronchovascular hyperpermeability, and airway reactivity. Hyperpnea-induced bronchoconstriction was assessed by measuring peripheral airway resistance (Rp) in anesthetized mechanically ventilated male mongrel dogs. Eith...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Freed AN,Omori C,Schofield BH,Mitzner W

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：: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：:Lung morphometry was introduced over 50 years ago to provide quantitative evaluation of the lung structure. The existing parameters, such as mean linear intercept and destructive index, suffer from simplistic data interpretation and a subjective data acquisition process. To overcome these existing shortcomings, parenc...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Xiao R,Goldklang MP,D'Armiento JM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) acting through epithelial nucleotide receptors exerts multiple physiologic actions on airway mucociliary clearance and caliber. However, the effect of ATP on arachidonate metabolism in the airway remains unknown. In this study, the ability of ATP to regulate eicosanoid production was studi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Aksoy MO,Borenstein M,Li XX,Kelsen SG

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix, in particular, collagens. Two IPF therapeutics, nintedanib and pirfenidone, decelerate lung function decline, but their underlying mechanisms of action are poorly understood. In this study, we sought to analyze their ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Knüppel L,Ishikawa Y,Aichler M,Heinzelmann K,Hatz R,Behr J,Walch A,Bächinger HP,Eickelberg O,Staab-Weijnitz CA

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Stimulated migration of eosinophils out of the bloodstream and into the lung is key in the development of tissue eosinophilia and inflammation in asthma. Platelet-activating factor (PAF) has been implicated as an important inflammatory mediator in asthma pathogenesis in part because of its chemotactic capacity. We the...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Casale TB,Erger RA,Little MM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of asthma has increased in recent years, and is characterized by airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation. Many patients report using alternative therapies to self-treat asthma symptoms as adjuncts to short-acting and long-acting β-agonists and inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). As many as 40% of patient...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Townsend EA,Siviski ME,Zhang Y,Xu C,Hoonjan B,Emala CW

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of conditional reprogramming culture (CRC) methods to nasal airway epithelial cells would allow more wide-spread incorporation of primary airway epithelial culture models into complex lung disease research. In this study, we adapted the CRC method to nasal airway epithelial cells, investigated the grow...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Reynolds SD,Rios C,Wesolowska-Andersen A,Zhuang Y,Pinter M,Happoldt C,Hill CL,Lallier SW,Cosgrove GP,Solomon GM,Nichols DP,Seibold MA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression and PGE2 secretion from human airway smooth muscle cells (hASMCs) may contribute to β2-adrenoceptor hyporesponsiveness, a clinical feature observed in some patients with asthma. hASMCs from patients with asthma exhibit elevated expression of cytokine-responsive genes, and in some in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Comer BS,Camoretti-Mercado B,Kogut PC,Halayko AJ,Solway J,Gerthoffer WT

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis of fibroblasts/myofibroblasts is a critical event in the resolution of tissue repair responses; however, mechanisms for the regulation of (myo)fibroblast apoptosis/survival remain unclear. In this study, we demonstrate counter-regulatory interactions between the plasminogen activation system and transforming...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Horowitz JC,Rogers DS,Simon RH,Sisson TH,Thannickal VJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:New approaches for improving tuberculosis (TB) control using adjunct host-directed cellular and repurposed drug therapies are needed. Autophagy plays a crucial role in the response to TB, and a variety of autophagy-inducing drugs that are currently available for various medical conditions may serve as an adjunct treat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Juárez E,Carranza C,Sánchez G,González M,Chávez J,Sarabia C,Torres M,Sada E

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin has been used as first-line treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes, and is reported to reduce cancer risk and progression by activating the liver kinase B1 (LKB1)-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway. Cisplatin remains the main drug for treating advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. However, drug r...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lin CC,Yeh HH,Huang WL,Yan JJ,Lai WW,Su WP,Chen HH,Su WC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) in the lung parenchyma. The abnormal ECM deposition slowly overtakes normal lung tissue, disturbing gas exchange and leading to respiratory failure and death. ECM cross-linking and subsequen...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bellaye PS,Shimbori C,Upagupta C,Sato S,Shi W,Gauldie J,Ask K,Kolb M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-mediated lung injury can stimulate a fibroproliferative response resulting in the alteration of the pulmonary extracellular matrix and subsequent scarring of parenchymal tissue. Fibronectin (FN), a component of the extracellular matrix, appears in increased quantities in fibrotic lung disease. Alveolar macropha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sinkin RA,LoMonaco MB,Finkelstein JN,Watkins RH,Cox C,Horowitz S

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil elastase (NE) is a major inflammatory mediator in cystic fibrosis (CF) that is a robust predictor of lung disease progression. NE directly causes airway injury via protease activity, and propagates persistent neutrophilic inflammation by up-regulation of neutrophil chemokine expression. Despite its key role...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Griffin KL,Fischer BM,Kummarapurugu AB,Zheng S,Kennedy TP,Rao NV,Foster WM,Voynow JA

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Bitter taste receptor (TAS2R) agonists dilate airways by receptor-dependent smooth muscle relaxation. Besides their coupling to relaxation, we have found that human airway smooth muscle (HASM) cell TAS2Rs activate (phosphorylate) extracellular signal-related kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2), but the cellular effects are not known....

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kim D,Cho S,Castaño MA,Panettieri RA,Woo JA,Liggett SB

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant lines the alveolar surface and prevents alveolar collapse. Derangements of surfactant cause respiratory failure and interstitial lung diseases. The collectins, surfactant proteins A and D, are also important in innate host defense. However, surfactant regulation in the postnatal lung is poorly understood. W...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Koth LL,Alex B,Hawgood S,Nead MA,Sheppard D,Erle DJ,Morris DG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of gene transfer vectors with regulated, lung-specific expression will be a useful tool for studying lung biology and developing gene therapies. In this study we constructed a series of lentiviral vectors with regulatory elements predicted to produce lung-specific transgene expression: the surfactant prote...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hendrickson B,Senadheera D,Mishra S,Bui KC,Wang X,Chan B,Petersen D,Pepper K,Lutzko C

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acute lung injury or respiratory distress syndrome often require supplemental oxygen to maintain tissue oxygenation; however, this treatment can cause or worsen lung inflammation. CD44 is a transmembrane adhesion molecule that is present on a wide variety of cell types, including leukocytes and parenchym...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： van der Windt GJ,Schouten M,Zeerleder S,Florquin S,van der Poll T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 3 billion people-half the worldwide population-are exposed to extremely high concentrations of household air pollution due to the burning of biomass fuels on inefficient cookstoves, accounting for 4 million annual deaths globally. Yet, our understanding of the pulmonary responses to household air polluti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sussan TE,Ingole V,Kim JH,McCormick S,Negherbon J,Fallica J,Akulian J,Yarmus L,Feller-Kopman D,Wills-Karp M,Horton MR,Breysse PN,Agrawal A,Juvekar S,Salvi S,Biswal S

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an allergic granulomatous interstitial lung disease resulting from a reaction of selected individuals to repeated inhalations of certain antigens. HP is characterized by chronic inflammation, and the development of the disease seems to be immunologically mediated. In farmer's lung,...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Denis M,Cormier Y,Tardif J,Ghadirian E,Laviolette M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial challenges remain in our understanding of fibrotic lung diseases. Nowhere is this more true than in the elucidation and verification of the pathogenetic basis upon which they develop. Scientific progress, most recently in the field of experimental therapy, has relied closely on interpreting data derived fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chua F,Gauldie J,Laurent GJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolytic lymphocytes play an important role in defense against viral and neoplastic disease. Integral to the function of these cells is the content of lysosomal granules. Recent attention has focused on a family of proteases present in the granules of natural killer (NK) cells, interleukin-2 (IL-2)-activated NK cells...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Breite WM,Dal Nogare AR,Yarbrough WC Jr,Weissler JC

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surfactant-associated proteins SP-A and SP-D are members of a family of collagenous host defense lectins, designated collectins. There is increasing evidence that these pulmonary epithelial-derived proteins are important components of the innate immune response to microbial challenge, and that they participate in ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Crouch EC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00