Human airway epithelia express a beta-defensin.

abstract：:Antenatal corticosteroids enhance lung maturation. However, the importance of glucocorticoid genes on early lung development, asthma susceptibility, and treatment response remains unknown. We investigated whether glucocorticoid genes are important during lung development and their role in asthma susceptibility and tre...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sharma S,Kho AT,Chhabra D,Qiu W,Gaedigk R,Vyhlidal CA,Leeder JS,Barraza-Villarreal A,London SJ,Gilliland F,Raby BA,Weiss ST,Tantisira KG

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkey Clara cell 10 kDa protein (CC10) was purified from monkey lung lavage. This protein showed an apparent molecular weight of about 10 kDa and 5 kDa under non-reducing and reducing conditions, respectively, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. From the amino acid sequence dat...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hashimoto S,Nakagawa K,Sueishi K

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：: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：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and eosinophils (Eos) are important cellular participants in a variety of acute and chronic inflammatory reactions in the airway. Histologic evidence has implicated direct interactions between these two subsets of leukocytes and airway epithelial cells during inflammation. A comprehe...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Jagels MA,Daffern PJ,Zuraw BL,Hugli TE

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combustion-generated radicals interact to form polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including carcinogens. PAHs aggregate into 20- to 50-nm particles, which extend into branched-chain structures (soots). Incomplete combustion yields black soot particles and black smoke. Many PAHs, including those in soots, fluore...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Murphy G Jr,Rouse RL,Polk WW,Henk WG,Barker SA,Boudreaux MJ,Floyd ZE,Penn AL

更新日期：2008-05-01 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

abstract：:In the present study, splenic dendritic cells (DC) and alveolar macrophages (AM) were pulsed with antigen in vitro and subsequently intratracheally instilled to test whether these cells have the capacity to sensitize T cells in the draining lymph nodes of the lung. The data demonstrate that antigen-pulsed DC, instille...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Havenith CE,Breedijk AJ,Betjes MG,Calame W,Beelen RH,Hoefsmit EC

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human recombinant stem cell factor (SCF) on inflammatory mediator release and smooth muscle contraction was evaluated in human isolated intralobar bronchi. Bronchi from 21 of 26 donors contracted in response to SCF. The threshold concentration was approximately 0.01 micrograms/ml. At 1 micrograms/ml, the...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Undem BJ,Lichtenstein LM,Hubbard WC,Meeker S,Ellis JL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine concentrations are elevated in the lungs of patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, where it balances between tissue repair and excessive airway remodeling. We previously demonstrated that the activation of the adenosine A2A receptor promotes epithelial wound closure. However, the mec...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Allen-Gipson DS,Zimmerman MC,Zhang H,Castellanos G,O'Malley JK,Alvarez-Ramirez H,Kharbanda K,Sisson JH,Wyatt TA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) holds great promise in the repair of cigarette smoke (CS)-induced lung damage in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Because CS leads to mitochondrial dysfunction, we aimed to investigate the potential benefit of mitochondrial transfer from human-induced pluri...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Li X,Zhang Y,Yeung SC,Liang Y,Liang X,Ding Y,Ip MS,Tse HF,Mak JC,Lian Q

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+) absorption and Cl(-) secretion are in equilibrium to maintain an appropriate airway surface fluid volume and ensure appropriate mucociliary clearance. In cystic fibrosis, this equilibrium is disrupted by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene resulting in the absence of ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Caci E,Melani R,Pedemonte N,Yueksekdag G,Ravazzolo R,Rosenecker J,Galietta LJ,Zegarra-Moran O

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL/APO-2L) is a member of the tumor necrosis factor family that induces apoptosis in a variety of transformed cell lines and in normal human hepatocytes and brain cells. Soluble TRAIL at high concentrations was found to induce apoptotic death in normal human ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yurovsky VV

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of eosinophils by microbe-derived molecules via Toll-like receptors (TLR) potentially provides the link between microbe-induced innate immune responses and the exacerbation of allergic inflammation. We investigated the expression of TLRs and the effect of their ligands on human eosinophils. Expression of TL...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Wong CK,Cheung PF,Ip WK,Lam CW

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Lung development is associated with a surge in surfactant phosphatidylcholine (PC) production to prepare the newborn for extrauterine breathing. This process is associated with a marked increase in the activity of the rate-regulatory surfactant enzyme, CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (CCTalpha). To investigate...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： McCoy DM,Fisher K,Robichaud J,Ryan AJ,Mallampalli RK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory lung diseases are associated with increased production of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) from infiltrating granulocytes or from the respiratory epithelium, and inappropriate expression and activation of MMP-9 may be associated with tissue injury and airway remodeling. Inflammatory conditions also resu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Okamoto T,Valacchi G,Gohil K,Akaike T,van der Vliet A

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:The capacity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) to induce production of chemokines with known chemotactic activity for monocytes and lymphocytes, the cellular building blocks of granulomas, was investigated. These chemokines included regulated upon activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES), monocyte c...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sadek MI,Sada E,Toossi Z,Schwander SK,Rich EA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) or fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-7, a peptide produced by stromal cells and in particular by lung mesenchyme, has recently been shown to influence early lung morphogenesis and to be a mitogen for fetal and adult alveolar type II cells. Although contradictory findings have been reporte...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chelly N,Mouhieddine-Gueddiche OB,Barlier-Mur AM,Chailley-Heu B,Bourbon JR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of hypoxia (< 2.5% O2) on rat manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene promoter-luciferase reporter constructs in transiently transfected lung epithelial cells (A549, L2, and E1A-T2) and fibroblasts (R9Ab). We cloned MnSOD promoter-luciferase reporter constructs (numbers refer to length ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ohman T,Parish G,Jackson RM

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:The purpose of this review is to give a comprehensive overview of transgenic mouse lines suitable for studying gene function and cellular lineage relationships in lung development, homeostasis, injury, and repair. Many of the mouse strains reviewed in this Perspective have been widely shared within the lung research c...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rawlins EL,Perl AK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a major product of alveolar macrophages (AM), has been implicated in many pulmonary diseases. Histamine, a mediator important in pulmonary inflammation, has been demonstrated to regulate the production of TNF-alpha by monocytes. In this study, we show that human AM and monocyte...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rowe J,Finlay-Jones JJ,Nicholas TE,Bowden J,Morton S,Hart PH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for advanced glycation end-products (RAGEs) are multiligand cell surface receptors highly expressed in the lung that contribute to alveolar epithelial cell differentiation during embryogenesis and the modulation of pulmonary inflammation during disease. When RAGEs are overexpressed throughout embryogenesis, ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Stogsdill JA,Stogsdill MP,Porter JL,Hancock JM,Robinson AB,Reynolds PR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicosis is a chronic lung disease induced by the inhalation of crystalline silica. Exposure of cultured macrophages to crystalline silica leads to cell death; however, the mechanism of cell-particle interaction, the fate of particles, and the cause of death are unknown. Time-lapse imaging shows that mouse macrophage...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Gilberti RM,Joshi GN,Knecht DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin light chain phosphorylation results in cellular contraction and is a critical component of agonist-mediated endothelial cell (EC) junctional gap formation and permeability. We have shown that this reaction is catalyzed by a novel high molecular-weight Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent nonmuscle myosin light chain kinas...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Verin AD,Lazar V,Torry RJ,Labarrere CA,Patterson CE,Garcia JG

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified two integrins, alpha 9 beta 1 and alpha v beta 6, from guinea pig airway epithelium. The extracellular matrix protein tenascin is a ligand for both of these receptors, and fibronectin is also a ligand for alpha v beta 6. In the present study, we used immunohistochemistry to examine the ex...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Weinacker A,Ferrando R,Elliott M,Hogg J,Balmes J,Sheppard D

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FGFs (fibroblast growth factors) are major factors associated with the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis. On the one hand, nintedanib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting several growth factor receptors, including the FGF receptor (FGFR), has been approved for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. On the ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Morizumi S,Sato S,Koyama K,Okazaki H,Chen Y,Goto H,Kagawa K,Ogawa H,Nishimura H,Kawano H,Toyoda Y,Uehara H,Nishioka Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 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