Endotoxin potentiates ozone-induced pulmonary chemokine and inflammatory responses.

abstract：:Basement membranes (BM) are specialized extracellular matrices (ECM) which serve as complex interfaces between epithelia, peripheral nerves, or muscle cells and their surrounding tissue microenvironments. Their composition is known to include type IV collagen, laminin, entactin, heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG, per...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Sannes PL,Wang J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the mechanisms by which neutrophils migrate into the airways, we constructed a novel in vitro model system with human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVE) monolayers grown on top of permeable filters and human lung Type II-like alveolar epithelial cell (A549) monolayers grown on the undersurface...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Casale TB,Mower DA,Carolan EJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two morphologic characteristics have been used to define the nonciliated bronchiolar epithelial cell: abundant agranular endoplasmic reticulum (AER) and membrane-bound avoid granules. To assess the ultrastructural homogeneity of this cell type in the lungs of large domestic mammals used as experimental models in pulmo...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Plopper CG,Mariassy AT,Hill LH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive research and clinical efforts made in the management of acute pancre-atitis during the past few decades, to date no effective cure is available and the mortality from severe acute pancre-atitis remains high. Given that lung is the primary cause of early death in acute pancreatitis patients, novel the...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Wang H,Wang S,Tang A,Gong H,Ma P,Chen L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraquat accumulation into rat lung slices was unaffected by hypoxia (PO2 = 645 mm Hg) but was inhibited by hypoxia. The IC50 (IC50 = partial pressure of O2 resulting in a 50% inhibition of paraquat accumulation) for paraquat accumulation was P02 = 50 mm Hg; significant accumulation could be observed after 1 or 2 hr o...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Montgomery MR,Wyatt I,Smith LL

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung disorders such as asthma, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), and interstitial lung disease (ILD) show a few common threads of pathogenic mechanisms: inflammation, aberrant immune activity, infection, and fibrosis. Currently no modes of effective treatment are avai...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Inamdar AC,Inamdar AA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diesel exhaust particles (DEP) are associated with respiratory disease and exposure to diesel exhaust induces an inflammatory response associated with marked leukocytic infiltration in the lung. This study examined whether neutrophils are activated by the active component of DEP (methanol extract of DEP [me-DEP]). The...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Matsuzaki T,Amakawa K,Yamaguchi K,Ishizaka A,Terashima T,Matsumaru A,Morishita T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury (ALI) is often associated with sepsis and is the most common cause of acute respiratory failure. The authors evaluated the role of the heme oxygenase (HO)/carbon monoxide (CO) system on lung injury in a cecal ligation and puncture (CLP)-induced mouse model of ALI. The authors established CLP-induced ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Fei D,Meng X,Kang K,Nan C,Zhao M,Pan S,Gao M,Yang S,Zhao M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the cervical vagus nerve of rats is known to increase vascular permeability in the trachea. In the present study, we sought to further characterize this neurogenic inflammatory response by defining the relationship between the parameters of electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve and the ma...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Brokaw JJ,McDonald DM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin activates protease-activated receptor (PAR)-1 and induces a myofibroblast phenotype in normal lung fibroblasts. The origins of myofibroblasts are resident fibroblasts, fibrocytes, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). We investigated the effects of thrombin, an important mediator of interstitial lung f...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Song JS,Kang CM,Park CK,Yoon HK

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations on leukocyte populations in the lung have shown that lymphocytes are found in different anatomical compartments. Lymphocytes can be seen to a different extent in the lung interstitium, the epithelium and lamina propria of the bronchi, the bronchoalveolar space, and the marginal lung vascular bed. Previo...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Fliegert FG,Tschernig T,Pabst R

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors recently showed that preterm birth per se, in the absence of assisted ventilation or elevated inhaled oxygen levels, alters the structure of the airway walls in young lambs. The initial aim of the present study was to determine whether these changes persist into adulthood. Preterm (P; n = 7) lambs were del...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Snibson K,Harding R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABSTRACT During fetal development physiological stretching helps drive lung growth and maturation. At birth, the α-subunit of the alveolar epithelial sodium channel (α-ENaC) is a critical factor in helping to facilitate clearance of lung fluid during the perinatal period. The effects of stretch, however, on α-ENaC exp...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Mustafa SB,Isaac J,Seidner SR,Dixon PS,Henson BM,DiGeronimo RJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octapeptide R2 (KVLDGQDP), which has anti-transglutaminas (TGase) activity, decreases inflammation in allergic conjunctivitis model in guinea pigs. The authors examined the effect of R2 on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced lung injury in BALB/c mice. R2 inhalation significantly decreased neutrophil count and cytokine m...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Suh GY,Ham HS,Lee SH,Choi JC,Koh WJ,Kim SY,Lee J,Han J,Kim HP,Choi AM,Kwon OJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerosol bolus dispersion was measured in the first branching generations of a replicate hollow cast. The cast was made from a solid cast of a beagle-dog tracheobronchial tree. The dispersion was measured after penetration of boluses into different volumetric depths, with different particle sizes and flow rates into th...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Scheuch G,Stahlhofen W,Fang CP,Lippmann M

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes (LTs) are potent vasoconstrictors in the pulmonary circulation. We investigated LTB4 and LTE4 metabolism by intrapulmonary arteries and veins of 2 to 9 days old lambs (n = 6). Paired vessels were incubated under baseline, and stimulated conditions. LTB4 and LTE4 were extracted from media, quantfied by enz...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Ibe BO,Raj JU

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta, and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) and the effect of imatinib, an agent inhibiting PDGF receptors, were assessed in a porcine bronchial transplantation model of obliterative bronchiolitis (OB). Up-regulation of PDGF...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Alho HS,Maasilta PK,Vainikka T,Salminen US

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies presented were designed to test the efficacy of farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) as potential chemopreventive compounds in the mouse lung tumor model, and in tumor cell lines. The compounds included manumycin, gliotoxin, dihydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), perillyl alcohol (POH), and FTI-276. Each of these...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Lantry LE,Zhang Z,Crist KA,Wang Y,Hara M,Zeeck A,Lubet RA,You M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical characterization of human respiratory mucus has generally utilized expectorated specimens. In order to exclude extraneous contaminants in the analysis of airway glycoproteins, human airways were cultured and the mucous glycoprotein released into the supernatant analyzed. By incorporating 3H-labeled glucosa...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Shelhamer JH,Marom Z,Logun C,Kaliner M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a receptor binding protein for tumor necrosis factor (TNFrbp) on cell infiltration, bronchial hyperreactivity, and release of inflammatory mediators were studied following antigen challenge in sensitized rats. A 3-fold increase in total cell number, mainly neutrophils and eosinophils, was noted in bronch...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Carvalho CR,Jancar S,Conroy D,Sirois P

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the ability of a single dose of the proenzyme single-chain urokinase (scuPA), low-molecular-weight urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), or a mutant site-inactive scuPA to resolve intrapleural loculations at 72 to 96 hours after tetracycline-induced pleural injury in rabbits. Both scuPA a...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Idell S,Azghani A,Chen S,Koenig K,Mazar A,Kodandapani L,Bdeir K,Cines D,Kulikovskaya I,Allen T

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined optimum conditions for delivering DNA to transformed human bronchial epithelial cells expressing wild-type (BEAS) or abnormal (2CF) cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) using cationic liposomes (Lipofectin, [N-(N,N-dimethylaminoethane)carbamyl] cholesterol[DC-Chol]/dioleoylphosphati...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Peters MT,Brigham KL,King GA,Meyrick BO,Gao X,Stecenko AA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the radioprotective effects of amifostine in the rat model of radiation-induced lung injury using fractionated doses of radiation, to determine whether amifostine given before irradiation protects tumor from radiation cytotoxicity, and to determine whether changes in plasma le...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Vujaskovic Z,Feng QF,Rabbani ZN,Samulski TV,Anscher MS,Brizel DM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because high partial pressures of oxygen (O2) can cause peroxidative cleavage of membrane lipids, it is plausible to hypothesize that hyperoxia alters the physical state and composition of lipids in the membranes of pulmonary endothelial cells and that manipulation of the lipid profile may modify endothelial cell tole...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Block ER

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the morphology of the adaptive response of the pulmonary parenchyma after the resection of lung tissue. Rats aged 23 days were subjected to the bilobectomy of the right upper and middle lobes representing 25% of the total lung volume. On the postoperative Days 1, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 30, the lungs...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Burri PH,Pfrunder HB,Berger LC

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cast of human tracheobronchial airways, which is complete to airways less than 0.1 cm in diameter, was employed for experimental studies of gas convective transport by high-frequency ventilation (HFV). The cast was ventilated with gases of different kinematic viscosity (He, air, and SF6) and tidal volumes of 10-60 m...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Fang CP,Cohen BS,Lippmann M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to develop and evaluate an adaptive control system for volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) in small animals to guarantee accurate delivery of tidal volume (VT) in the presence of changes in lung mechanics. METHODS:The adaptive control system to control the Harvard Inspira ventilator was des...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Huhle R,Spieth PM,Güldner A,Koch T,de Abreu MG

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins (PGs) synthesized by fetal and neonatal lungs play pivotal roles in pulmonary physiology, especially during the transition from uterine to independent life. One regulator of prostaglandin synthesis at this time may be oxygen. We examined the effects of 1% O2, 21% O2 and 50% O2 in 5% CO2, balance N2 (PO2...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Olson DM,Tanswell AK

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF THE STUDY:The current investigation was taken to scrutinize the action of tranilast on the airway remodeling in chronic asthma in mice. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Intraperitoneal injection of ovalbumin was applied to mice for sensitization and subsequent inhalation of 1% ovalbumin three times week for 10 weeks for c...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Nader MA,Gameil N,Abdelaziz RR,Zalata KR,Osman A,Zedan MM,Abo-Elkheir N,Elsiddig AA,Zedan M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase is an important class of enzymes that plays an essential role in the cellular proliferation, differentiation, and oncogenesis. In this paper we report characterization of a low-molecular-weight protein tyrosine phosphatase purified from bovine lung. The enzyme activity was essentially inde...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Buzalaf MA,Taga EM,Granjeiro JM,Ferreira CV,Lourenção VA,Ortega MM,Poletto DW,Aoyama H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00