Platelet-derived growth factor, transforming growth factor-beta, and connective tissue growth factor in a porcine bronchial model of obliterative bronchiolitis.

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：:The effect of glucocorticoids on the response of adenylate cyclase in fetal rat lung fibroblast and Type II epithelial cell cultures to beta-agonists and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) was investigated. There was significant stimulation of cyclic AMP synthesis by adrenalin in both fibroblasts and Type II cells, which was pot...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Skinner SJ,Lowe C,Ashby CJ,Liggins GC

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraphagosomal pH in rabbit alveolar macrophages was studied using amorphous silica particles (FSP) and yeast particles (FYP) labeled with fluorescein. The pH was estimated from the quotient between the fluorescence intensity at wavelength 519 nm with excitation at wavelengths 495 and 450 nm. Within a factor of 10, p...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Nyberg K,Johansson A,Camner P

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Volcanic ash was collected from the Moses Lake region of Washington State after the 18 May 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The ash was tested in a short-term bioassay system using hamsters exposed by intratracheal instillation. One day after exposure the lungs were lavaged and the fluid collected was characterized us...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Beck BD,Brain JD,Bohannon DE

更新日期：1981-11-01 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：:Tracheal occlusion (TO) performed surgically in utero near the end of gestation causes a rapid increase in the distension of future airspaces, resulting in accelerated lung development. The authors hypothesize that TO stimulates microvascular growth concomitant with a rapid increase in the expression of genes implicat...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Cloutier M,Maltais F,Piedboeuf B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was hypothesized that IL-8, a neutrophil chemotaxin, contributes to the influx of neutrophils into the pleural cavity of patients with pleural effusions. Pleural fluids were collected from 57 patients including 13 with effusions due to congestive heart failure, 28 with pleural involvement by carcinoma, 5 with empye...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Miller EJ,Idell S

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：:Chymase is a chymotrypsin-like serine protease that is present in mast cells. Its activities include various effects associated with inflammatory responses. But little is known about the effects of chymase in pulmonary fibrosis. The mouse silicosis model was induced by intratracheal injection of 10 mg silica. The Ashc...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Takato H,Yasui M,Ichikawa Y,Waseda Y,Inuzuka K,Nishizawa Y,Tagami A,Fujimura M,Nakao S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both ovalbumin-sensitized and ovalbumin-challenged guinea pigs, the phospholipid content of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid is decreased with respect to that of controls. In the sensitized guinea pig, the activity of lung membrane phospholipase is increased and the phospholipid content of lung membranes is decreased. ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Rami J,Brondel L,Rivière D,Besombes JP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in hypobaric hypoxia for 17-21 d (FIO2 10%) to establish pulmonary hypertension (PH) and control rats were kept in normobaric room air. Right mean atrial and ventricular pressures (PRA, PRV) were recorded, left ventricular (LV) blood was collected, and lungs were perfused with hepa...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Keith IM,Ekman R

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We set out to determine whether or not the "mucolytic" drug N-acetylcysteine would speed the reversal of cigarette smoke-induced secretory-cell hyperplasia to normal, similar to that found previously for two nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Cigarette smoke alone significantly (p less than 0.01) increased the numbe...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Rogers DF,Godfrey RW,Majumdar S,Jeffery PK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method has been developed for separation of an enriched population of mouse type 2 pneumocytes, based on differential adherence and size fractionation of cells dissociated with trypsin. These cells were successfully maintained in primary culture in serum-free medium MCDB 201 supplemented with albumin, tran...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kumar RK,Li W,O'Grady R

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：: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：PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:Pulmonary infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) significantly contribute to morbidity and mortality in pneumonia. Recent studies have indicated that High-Mobility Group Box 1 Protein (HMGB1) plays an important role in the prevention and trea...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Liming S,Guixia L,Wenxin S,Guirong T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct measurements of pleural fluid hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressures after infusion of saline, bovine serum albumin, or silicone into the pleural space were coupled with ultrastructural morphometric analyses to assess the response of pleural mesothelial cells to hydrothorax. Increases of hydrostatic pressure...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Shumko JZ,Feinberg RN,Shalvoy RM,DeFouw DO

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway that is mediated by T-helper 2(TH2) cells. Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) can aggravate asthmatic lung inflammation by activating dendritic cells (DCs) to promote TH2 differentiation. TSLP promoter polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Liu W,Xu LS,Liu QJ,Dong FZ,Qiu RF,Wen MC,Han YL,Tang NB,Kang LJ,Wu JX,Liu F,Zhao JP,Yang MM,Wang JF,Ding MJ,Sun YM,Fei WJ,Dong L

更新日期：2012-10-01 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 OF THE STUDY:Workers in enclosed hogbarns experience an increased incidence of airway inflammation and obstructive lung disease, and an aqueous hogbarn dust extract (HDE) induces multiple inflammation-related responses in cultured airway epithelial cells. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) phosphorylation ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Dodmane PR,Schulte NA,Heires AJ,Band H,Romberger DJ,Toews ML

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is evident that much remains to be learned about the nasal passages and their responses to toxic materials. For the nose of both laboratory animals and humans, information is needed in the areas of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, neurobiology, physiopathology, and oncology. This article briefly discussed toxic a...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Bonnefoi M,Monticello TM,Morgan KT

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Investigators disagree on the amount of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) released by resting and stimulated alveolar macrophages. The method commonly used to measure H2O2 release involves horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-catalyzed oxidation of scopoletin by H2O2. We describe an artifact in this method that may explain the seeming...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Van Scott MR,Miles PR,Castranova V

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro responses of potential target cell types to air pollutants under physiological conditions may be useful in understanding the health effects of air pollution exposure. The study evaluated responses of human primary airway epithelial cells to diesel exhaust (DE). Cultures of cells from 3 donors, differentiated ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Seagrave J,Dunaway S,McDonald JD,Mauderly JL,Hayden P,Stidley C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical strain initiates a variety of responses in pulmonary epithelial cells. The signaling pathways and molecular alterations leading to these responses remain unclear To identify novel signal transduction pathways activated by strain, macroarray analysis was performed on strained pulmonary epithelial cells. Glut...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Chess PR,O'Reilly MA,Toia L

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of bombesin was investigated in the course of the pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis (PF) elicited by the intratracheal (IT) or intravenous (i.v.) administration of bleomycin in mice. Bleomycin-induced alveolitis was associated with an accumulation of cells, presumably macrophages, containing bombesin, as ev...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Piguet PF,Vesin C,Thomas F

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar cells were evaluated in BALB/c mice exposed to smoke from 9 cigarettes per day. The mice were sacrificed at 1, 5, and 10 days and examined by lung morphometry and immunohistochemical staining of alveolar macrophages for tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-12, and tissue inhibitor...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： da Hora K,Valença SS,Porto LC

更新日期：2005-10-01 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