Effects of stress on alveolar macrophages: a role for the sympathetic nervous system.

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：:Pulmonary accumulation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/usual interstitial pneumonia (IFP/UIP) has been linked to (1) increased migration of a circulating pool of fibrocytes, (2) cell proliferation, and (3) resistance to apoptosis. The mechanism of physiologic apoptosis of lung fibrob...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Frankel SK,Cosgrove GP,Cha SI,Cool CD,Wynes MW,Edelman BL,Brown KK,Riches DW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) metabolizes polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cigarette smoke to DNA-binding reactive intermediates associated with carcinogenesis. Epidemiologic studies indicate that the majority of coal miners are smokers but have a lower risk of lung cancer than other smokers. We hypothesized that coa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ghanem MM,Porter D,Battelli LA,Vallyathan V,Kashon ML,Ma JY,Barger MW,Nath J,Castranova V,Hubbs AF

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Airway remodeling is strongly correlated with the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this study, our goal was to characterize progressive structural changes in site-specific airways, along with the temporal and spatial expression of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β in the lungs of male s...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hoang LL,Nguyen YP,Aspeé R,Bolton SJ,Shen YH,Wang L,Kenyon NJ,Smiley-Jewell S,Pinkerton KE

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have used the rat model of hyperoxia to examine the molecular responses to oxidative stress in lung. We show that in addition to the antioxidant enzyme manganese superoxide dismutase, expression of a variety of stress-responsive genes including heme oxygenase-1, c-fos, c-jun, CAAT-enhancer binding pr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Choi AM,Sylvester S,Otterbein L,Holbrook NJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 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 alveolar epithelium is a critical target for pulmonary viruses and can produce proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines upon viral infection. However, the molecular interactions between virus-infected alveolar epithelial cells and inflammatory cells, including polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), have not been tho...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rzepka JP,Haick AK,Miura TA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical ventilation with high tidal volumes has been associated with pulmonary alveolar flooding. Understanding the mechanisms underlying cyclic stretch-induced increases in alveolar epithelial permeability may be important in designing preventive measures for acute lung injury. In this work, we assessed whether cy...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Davidovich N,DiPaolo BC,Lawrence GG,Chhour P,Yehya N,Margulies SS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity affects the incidence and severity of asthma in at least two major phenotypes: an early-onset allergic (EOA) form that is complicated by obesity and a late-onset nonallergic (LONA) form that occurs only in the setting of obesity. Both groups exhibit airway hyperresponsiveness to methacholine challenge but exhi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bates JH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation remains the only therapeutic option for many patients suffering from end-stage pulmonary disease. Long-term success after lung transplantation is severely limited by the development of bronchiolitis obliterans. The murine heterotopic tracheal transplantation model has been widely used for studies ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Okazaki M,Gelman AE,Tietjens JR,Ibricevic A,Kornfeld CG,Huang HJ,Richardson SB,Lai J,Garbow JR,Patterson GA,Krupnick AS,Brody SL,Kreisel D

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-11 and IL-11 receptor (R)alpha are induced by Th2 cytokines. However, the role(s) of endogenous IL-11 in antigen-induced Th2 inflammation has not been fully defined. We hypothesized that IL-11, signaling via IL-11Ralpha, plays an important role in aeroallergen-induced Th2 inflammation and mucus metaplasia. To test ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lee CG,Hartl D,Matsuura H,Dunlop FM,Scotney PD,Fabri LJ,Nash AD,Chen NY,Tang CY,Chen Q,Homer RJ,Baca M,Elias JA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 is a potent bronchoconstrictor peptide with pro-inflammatory and growth-promoting properties. After exposure of sensitized Brown-Norway rats to six repeated ovalbumin exposures, there was an increase in pro-endothelin (ET)-1 messenger RNA compared with saline-exposed control rats 24 h after the final expo...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Salmon M,Liu YC,Mak JC,Rousell J,Huang TJ,Hisada T,Nicklin PL,Chung KF

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described overproduction of interferon (IFN)-gamma by lung lymphocytes in mice with silicosis (11% of cells in air-control versus 19% of cells from silica-exposed mice; Davis and colleagues, Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 1999;20:813-824). We hypothesized that the increased IFN-gamma production might be du...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Davis GS,Pfeiffer LM,Hemenway DR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory lung disease is associated with increased epithelial permeability, but it is unclear how inflammatory cells alter epithelial permeability. Neutrophils have azurophilic granules containing elastase, cathepsin G, and defensins which are released at sites of inflammation. Experiments using whole animals and ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Peterson MW,Walter ME,Nygaard SD

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of protective immunity to mycobacterial infection in the lung remain poorly defined. In this study, T-cell subset expansion and cytokine expression in bronchoalveolar spaces, lung parenchyma, and mediastinal lymph nodes of mice infected intratracheally with Mycobacterium bovis-Calmette-Guerin bacillus (BCG)...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Fulton SA,Martin TD,Redline RW,Henry Boom W

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:Toll-interacting protein (TOLLIP) is an intracellular adaptor protein with diverse actions throughout the body. In a context- and cell type-specific manner, TOLLIP can function as an inhibitor of inflammation and endoplasmic reticulum stress, an activator of autophagy, or a critical regulator of intracellular vacuole ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Li X,Goobie GC,Gregory AD,Kass DJ,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The airway epithelium plays a critical role in innate responses to airborne allergens by secreting IL-1 family cytokines such as IL-1α and IL-33 as alarmins that subsequently orchestrate appropriate immune responses. Previous studies revealed that epithelial IL-33 secretion by allergens such as Alternaria alternata or...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Schiffers C,Hristova M,Habibovic A,Dustin CM,Danyal K,Reynaert NL,Wouters EFM,van der Vliet A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Airway inflammation, hyperreactivity, increased number of goblet cells, and mucus overproduction characterize asthma. Respiratory challenge with ovalbumin (OVA) of sensitized mice has been shown by several laboratories to cause pulmonary pathology similar to that observed in human allergic asthma. Recently, interleuki...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zuhdi Alimam M,Piazza FM,Selby DM,Letwin N,Huang L,Rose MC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar type II cells produce pulmonary surfactant and serve as the stem cell of the alveolar epithelium by proliferating and transforming into type I cells. The study of the differentiated function and proliferative capacity of type II cells in response to injury in vivo has been hindered by the complexity of the sy...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Kinnard WV,Tuder R,Papst P,Fisher JH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an important regulator of Na(+) reabsorption by pulmonary epithelial cells and therefore of alveolar fluid clearance. The mechanisms by which NO affects epithelial ion transport are poorly understood and vary from model to model. In this study, the effects of NO on sodium reabsorption by H441 cell...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Althaus M,Pichl A,Clauss WG,Seeger W,Fronius M,Morty RE

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Interleukin (IL)-1beta stimulates the release of granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) from lung epithelial cells. To investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying GM-CSF regulation, we studied GM-CSF production, messenger RNA (mRNA) expression levels, and GM-CSF promoter activity in A549 human a...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Bergmann M,Barnes PJ,Newton R

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the effect of the novel retinoid 6-[3-(1-adamantyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]-2-naphthalene carboxylic acid (AHPN/CD437) on the growth of human lung carcinoma cell lines. AHPN inhibits the proliferation of all cell lines tested, irrespective of the lung tumor type, in a concentration- and time-de...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Adachi H,Preston G,Harvat B,Dawson MI,Jetten AM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury induced by reactive oxygen gases such as ozone (O(3)) is focal and site-selective. To define patterns of acute epithelial injury along intrapulmonary airways, we developed a new analytic approach incorporating labeling of permeable cells, airway microdissection, and laser scanning confocal microscopy...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Postlethwait EM,Joad JP,Hyde DM,Schelegle ES,Bric JM,Weir AJ,Putney LF,Wong VJ,Velsor LW,Plopper CG

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a pollutant of both outdoor and indoor atmospheres that has the potential to alter alveolar epithelial permeability. In order to assess alterations in the protein content of alveolar lining fluid induced by brief (3-h) exposures to low-level NO2, normal volunteers were exposed sequentially to...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Frampton MW,Finkelstein JN,Roberts NJ Jr,Smeglin AM,Morrow PE,Utell MJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：: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