Guinea pig Clara cells secrete endothelin 1 through a phosphoramidon-sensitive pathway.

abstract：:The matrix glycoprotein, fibronectin, stimulates the proliferation of non-small cell lung carcinoma in vitro through α5β1 integrin receptor-mediated signals. However, the true role of fibronectin and its receptor in lung carcinogenesis in vivo remains unclear. To test this, we generated mouse Lewis lung carcinoma cell...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Roman J,Ritzenthaler JD,Roser-Page S,Sun X,Han S

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Airway neutrophilia is a prominent feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As cigarette smoke (CS) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) both cause release of interleukin-8 (IL-8) from epithelial cells in vitro, we investigated whether autocrine ligands for the EGF receptor (EGFR) are involved in this proinflamm...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Richter A,O'Donnell RA,Powell RM,Sanders MW,Holgate ST,Djukanović R,Davies DE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic basis for the underlying individual susceptibility to chlorine-induced acute lung injury is unknown. To uncover the genetic basis and pathophysiological processes that could provide additional homeostatic capacities during lung injury, 40 inbred murine strains were exposed to chlorine, and haplotype associ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Leikauf GD,Pope-Varsalona H,Concel VJ,Liu P,Bein K,Berndt A,Martin TM,Ganguly K,Jang AS,Brant KA,Dopico RA Jr,Upadhyay S,Di YP,Li Q,Hu Z,Vuga LJ,Medvedovic M,Kaminski N,You M,Alexander DC,McDunn JE,Prows DR,Kn

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify relationships amongst tracheal and alveolar epithelial cells during lung development, we used conditional systems controlled by the rat CCSP and human SFTPC gene promoters to express Cre-recombinase in the developing mouse lung, thereby permanently labeling cells by expression of alkaline phosphatase or gr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Perl AK,Wert SE,Loudy DE,Shan Z,Blair PA,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucus obstruction is a key feature of many inflammatory airway diseases. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are released upon neutrophil stimulation and consist of extracellular chromatin networks studded with cytotoxic proteins. When released in the airways, these NETs can become part of the airway mucus. We hypot...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Linssen RS,Chai G,Ma J,Kummarapurugu AB,van Woensel JBM,Bem RA,Kaler L,Duncan GA,Zhou L,Rubin BK,Xu Q

更新日期：2021-01-01 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

abstract：:The lung is richly supplied with peptidergic nerves that store and secrete substance P (SP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and other neuropeptides known to potently modulate leukocyte function in vitro and airway inflammation in vivo. To investigate and characterize neuromodulation of immune responses compartme...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kaltreider HB,Ichikawa S,Byrd PK,Ingram DA,Kishiyama JL,Sreedharan SP,Warnock ML,Beck JM,Goetzl EJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-13 is a T-helper class 2 cytokine that induces goblet cell hyperplasia and mucus production in airway epithelial cells. Because macrolide antibiotics are known to have immunomodulatory and mucoregulatory properties, the aim of this study was to examine the effect of clarithromycin on IL-13-induced goblet cell hyper...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tanabe T,Kanoh S,Tsushima K,Yamazaki Y,Kubo K,Rubin BK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reasons for bacterial proliferation in the lungs of mechanically ventilated patients are poorly understood. We hypothesized that prolonged cyclic stretch of lung cells influenced bacterial growth. Human alveolar type II-like A549 cells were submitted in vitro to prolonged cyclic stretch. Bacteria were cultured in ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Pugin J,Dunn-Siegrist I,Dufour J,Tissières P,Charles PE,Comte R

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Endotoxin lipopolysaccharide and the cytokines, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1 (IL-1), are known to protect adult rats against O2 toxicity. However, whether the effect of endotoxin is mediated by these cytokines is not clear. We have previously demonstrated that depletion of 84% rat alveolar macrophages...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tang G,White JE,Lumb PD,Lawrence DA,Tsan MF

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are multifunctional proteins that have the capacity to modify cellular activities and to modulate matrix turnover. We demonstrate that TIMP-1 messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein expression are selectively and markedly increased in a murine model of bleomycin-induced pulmona...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Madtes DK,Elston AL,Kaback LA,Clark JG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A greater understanding of the regulatory processes contributing to lung development could help ameliorate morbidity and mortality in premature infants and identify individuals at risk for congenital and/or chronic lung diseases. Genomics technologies have provided rich gene expression datasets for the developing lung...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kho AT,Bhattacharya S,Mecham BH,Hong J,Kohane IS,Mariani TJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Epithelial-mesenchymal cell interactions and factors that control normal lung development are key players in lung injury, repair, and fibrosis. A number of studies have investigated the roles and sources of epithelial progenitors during lung regeneration; such information, however, is limited in lung fibroblasts. Thus...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Green J,Endale M,Auer H,Perl AK

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine was one of the first inflammatory mediators thought to be important in the pathophysiology of asthma, but it is not now thought to be a mediator with primary importance in airway constriction. However, histamine has several effects that may be relevant. One of these effects, its immunoregulatory role, has be...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bissonnette EY

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (HPAH) is a serious lung vascular disease caused by heterozygous mutations in the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathway genes, BMPR2 and SMAD9. One noncanonical function of BMP signaling regulates biogenesis of a subset of microRNAs. We have previously shown that this funct...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Drake KM,Dunmore BJ,McNelly LN,Morrell NW,Aldred MA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleural organization may occur after empyema or complicated parapneumonic effusion and can result in restrictive lung disease with pleural fibrosis (PF). Pleural mesothelial cells; PMCs, may contribute to PF through acquisition of a profibrotic phenotype; meso-mesenchymal transition (MesoMT), which is characterized by...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Qin W,Jeffers A,Owens S,Chauhan P,Komatsu S,Qian G,Guo X,Ikebe M,Idell S,Tucker TA

更新日期：2021-01-29 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：:Pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) is a rare and fatal disorder that involves extensive remodeling of the pulmonary arteries mediated by hyperproliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). Aberrant platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) activity can lead to hyperproliferation of PASMCs; however, littl...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chen J,Guo J,Cui X,Dai Y,Tang Z,Qu J,Raj JU,Hu Q,Gou D

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin (ET)-1 causes long-lasting vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling by interacting with specific G-protein-coupled receptors in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs), and thus plays an important role in the pathophysiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The two-pore domain K(+) channel, TASK-1,...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tang B,Li Y,Nagaraj C,Morty RE,Gabor S,Stacher E,Voswinckel R,Weissmann N,Leithner K,Olschewski H,Olschewski A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study utilized the monocrotaline (MCT) model of pulmonary hypertension in rats to examine temporal alterations in steady-state levels of basement membrane (BM) component mRNA and deposition of protein using Northern analysis and immunohistochemistry, respectively. MCT (60 mg/kg, subcutaneous) produced sust...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lipke DW,Arcot SS,Gillespie MN,Olson JW

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thy-1 is a glycosylphosphytidylinositol-linked cell-surface glycoprotein present on a subset of lung fibroblasts, which plays an important role in postnatal alveolarization. In the present study, we define the role of Thy-1 in pulmonary lipofibroblast differentiation and in the regulation of lipid homeostasis via pero...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Varisco BM,Ambalavanan N,Whitsett JA,Hagood JS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is an inflammatory cytokine produced by many cell types which may contribute to the pathophysiology of a variety of lung diseases. In this study we have used Ro 45-2081 (a soluble receptor composed of the human p55 TNF receptor and human heavy-chain immunoglobulin G) to explore the role of ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gater PR,Wasserman MA,Paciorek PM,Renzetti LM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interleukin-8 (IL-8) are inflammatory cytokines produced by alveolar macrophages (AMs) and implicated in sepsis-related adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Preliminary findings from clinical trials suggest that aerosolized ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Thomassen MJ,Meeker DP,Antal JM,Connors MJ,Wiedemann HP

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin, an endothelium-derived vasoconstrictor peptide, has recently been reported to exist in airway epithelial cells. To elucidate a possible role of endothelin on epithelial functions, we studied the effects of this peptide on ciliary beat frequency (CBF) and electrical properties of canine cultured tracheal ep...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tamaoki J,Kanemura T,Sakai N,Isono K,Kobayashi K,Takizawa T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologic changes are reported to occur in rat lung vasculature after 3 days of hypoxia. We have previously shown that immunoreactivity for the vasodilator calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is increased in pulmonary endocrine cells by 7 days of hypoxia. Because these cells may be among the earliest mediators of...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Roncalli M,Springall DR,Maggioni M,Moradoghli-Haftvani A,Winter RJ,Zhao L,Coggi G,Polak JM

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emphasis has recently been placed on the roles of chemotactic cytokines called chemokines to explain the accumulation of inflammatory cells in the lung that may precede or accompany pulmonary fibrosis in interstitial lung diseases. We hypothesized that RANTES, a member of the C-C chemokines, is one such chemokine. Bro...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kodama N,Yamaguchi E,Hizawa N,Furuya K,Kojima J,Oguri M,Takahashi T,Kawakami Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00