Immunohistochemical study of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, matrix metalloproteinase-12, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 on alveolar macrophages of BALB/c mice exposed to short-term cigarette smoke.

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：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：INTRODUCTION:Nintedanib is a multi-tyrosine kinase receptor inhibitor recently approved for treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Although angiogenesis is a key process involved in airway structural changes in patients with bronchial asthma, the effect of nintedanib targeting the angiokinase pathway on airway inf...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Lee HY,Hur J,Kim IK,Kang JY,Yoon HK,Lee SY,Kwon SS,Kim YK,Rhee CK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term, low-dose macrolide therapy has been proven to improve survival in patients with diffuse panbronchiolitis and cystic fibrosis, although the mechanisms by which it does so remain unknown. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory effects of macrolides, the authors examined the effects of ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Yu C,Azuma A,Li Y,Wang C,Abe S,Usuki J,Matsuda K,Kudoh S,Sunazuka T,Omura S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that increased recruitment of phagocytes and subsequent clearance of particles may follow instillation of a leukocyte chemoattractant to lungs containing silica. The present study quantitated serially the silica content in alveolar spaces, in lung tissue and in hilar lymph nodes of mice that rece...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Adamson IY,Prieditis H,Bowden DH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A past study demonstrated that all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) treatment by intraperitoneal injection in a rat model of elastase-induced emphysema caused tissue regeneration as evidenced by a decrease in alveolar size and lung volume and an increase in alveolar number. We postulated that treatment with this retinoid by...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： March TH,Cossey PY,Esparza DC,Dix KJ,McDonald JD,Bowen LE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Zizyphi fructus, a major constituent of Chinese anti-asthmatic herbal medicine, on ciliary motility and nitric oxide (NO) generation in canine cultured tracheal epithelium were studied by the microphoto-oscillation method and the specific amperometric method, respectively. Addition of Zizyphi fructus at...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Tamaoki J,Kondo M,Tagaya E,Takemura K,Konno K

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Previously, this laboratory has shown that intratracheally administered hyaluronic acid (HA) significantly reduces air-space enlargement in a hamster model of emphysema induced with pancreatic elastase. Whereas HA was given immediately following elastase in those initial studies, the current investigation determined t...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Cantor JO,Cerreta JM,Armand G,Turino GM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administering liposome-encapsulated drugs by aerosols could be a feasible way of targeting drugs to the lung, specifically to pulmonary alveolar macrophages (AM). In the mouse model, we characterized uptake of carboxyfluorescein- (CF-) labeled liposomes by AM in vivo after acute inhalation of liposome aerosols, and th...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Myers MA,Thomas DA,Straub L,Soucy DW,Niven RW,Kaltenbach M,Hood CI,Schreier H,Gonzalez-Rothi RJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freeze-fracture was used to study the nonciliated epithelial (Clara) cell of rat bronchiole. En face views of the P face of the luminal cell membrane reveal particle-free bulging and circular depressions at the presumptive sites of the membrane fusion between the cell membrane and secretory granule membrane. Cross fra...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Yoneda K,Birk MG

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTP:cholinephosphate cytidylyltransferase (CT) is a key enzyme required for surfactant phosphatidylcholine synthesis, and its activity is regulated by lung lipids. This study evaluated the effect of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on the phospholipid content and the expression of CT in the lung following direct in vivo ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Mallampalli RK,Salome RG,Hunninghake GW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) is a critical transcription factor for the production of many inflammatory cytokines. It is activated in the airway epithelium of human asthmatics and in mice after allergic stimulation. To examine the role of NF-kappa B activation in allergic inflammation, the authors generated tra...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Sheller JR,Polosukhin VV,Mitchell D,Cheng DS,Peebles RS,Blackwell TS

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantified in vivo pulmonary vascular remodeling in a large animal model of pulmonary hypertension (PH). In group PH (n = 6), 3 mg/kg dehydromonocrotaline (DHMC) was administered to 12-week-old beagles via a right atrial injection. Eight weeks after DHMC in group PH, pulmonary artery pressure increased significantl...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Gust R,Schuster DP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to investigate differential cell responses of alveolar epithelial cells (AECs) after treatments with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to mimic the exposure to inflammation and oxidative stress and the mechanisms of a double-hit model of apoptosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:AEC...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kang EK,Kim HS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) is characteristically altered in cancer, and they may play a role in cancer development and progression. The authors performed microarray and real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analyses to determine the miRNA expression profile of primary sm...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Miko E,Czimmerer Z,Csánky E,Boros G,Buslig J,Dezso B,Scholtz B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE/AIM:Intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) is an irreversible vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor used to treat severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in extremely low gestational age neonates (ELGANs). ELGANs who are at the highest risk for developing severe ROP often experience brief intermittent...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Duggan TJ,Cai CL,Aranda JV,Beharry KD

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine appears to be the primary pharmacologic agent that causes smoking-related pulmonary diseases. An understanding of the effect of nicotine on lungs is essential to develop interventions that can be used to counter smoking-related diseases. Further, it is shown that physical exercise may partially reverse smokin...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Al-Obaidi S,Mathew TC,Dean E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess production of neutrophil elastase contributes to the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, the role of neutrophil elastase in the repair process following ALI/ARDS is not well understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of neutrop...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Fujino N,Kubo H,Suzuki T,He M,Suzuki T,Yamada M,Takahashi T,Ota C,Yamaya M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B6C3F1 female mice were exposed to cigarette smoke (CS) (250 mg/m3 total particulate material) or filtered air (FA), 6 hours/day, 5 days/week, for 6, 7, or 10 weeks, or to CS for 6 weeks, then FA for 1 or 4 additional weeks. Exposure to CS increased macrophages, neutrophils, lymphocytes, and matrix metalloproteinase (...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Seagrave J,Barr EB,March TH,Nikula KJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable numbers of composite repetitive motifs are found in different individuals within intron 4 of the surfactant protein B (SP-B) gene (Biochem J. 1995;305:583). This study tests the hypothesis that the distribution of SP-B alleles differs among racial/ethnic groups. A total of 412 SP-B alleles were analyzed: 206 ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Veletza SV,Rogan PK,TenHave T,Olowe SA,Floros J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion (IR) is a biopathological event detectable in several clinical conditions, including lung transplantation, cardiopulmonary bypass, resuscitation, and pulmonary embolism. The understanding behind the activation of various inflammatory mediators regulating the apoptotic pathways ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Dolkart O,E A,S S,S M,P G,Aa W

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of activated leukocytes on surfactant function and composition were examined to better define the mechanisms by which acute inflammation contributes to respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Peripheral blood leukocytes from healthy volunteers were incubated in vitro with surfactant for 4 hours: (1) in the a...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Schochett P,Mora R,Mark L,Butler M,Ingenito EP

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:The aim of the study was to identify the effects on the lung after subchronic glass fiber intratracheal instillation study on rats. We evaluated the toxicological effects on the lung: persistent inflammatory reaction, cell proliferation, and pulmonary fibrosis on histopathological examination. We performed a glass fib...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Domokos-Hancu B,Man MA,Liana H,Pop CM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims:Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is characterized by alveolarization arrest. During alveolarization, alveolar myofibroblasts are thought to migrate into the septal tips and elongate secondary septa. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exposure has been reported to disrupt directional migration and final location of alveolar...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Li J,Gong X

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that replication-deficient adenovirus (Ad), when complexed with plasmid DNA (pl) and cationic liposomes (L), would enhance liposome-mediated gene transfer in cultured human airway epithelial cells. Pl/L/Ad complexes were formed using charge-charge interactions. A gel electrophoresis retardation assay s...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Stecenko A,King G,Torii K,Gao X,Persmark M,Shih K,Brigham K,Raja-Walia R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypoperfusion of the pulmonary vascular bed under the condition of congenital cardiac malformations may lead to progressive pulmonary vascular disease. To improve the mechanistic understanding of this disease, we examined the biochemical and morphological changes of the lung in a relevant animal model and pr...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Xu Y,Liu Y,Li Z,Su J,Li G,Sun L

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:The Ca(2+)-mobilizing actions of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), bradykinin, and histamine were compared in phenotypically distinct human nasal epithelial (HNE) cell types and as a function of time in cell culture. Single-cell measurements of intracellular free Ca2+ (Ca2+i, Fura-2 fluorescence) were recorded in cilia...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Paradiso AM,Brown HA,Ye H,Harden TK,Boucher RC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00