Lung tumors in strain A mice as a bioassay for carcinogenicity of environmental chemicals.

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：: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：: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：:Understanding the effects from long-term exposure to individual ambient air pollutants and mixtures of pollutants is necessary for adequate assessment of health risk. This study examined quantitative and temporal alterations in tracheobronchial mucociliary clearance function and bronchial epithelial secretory cells in...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Schlesinger RB,Gorczynski JE,Dennison J,Richards L,Kinney PL,Bosland MC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:As a transcription factor of the nuclear receptor superfamily, neuron-derived orphan receptor 1 (NOR1) is induced rapidly in response to various extracellular stimuli. But, it is still unclear its role in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells proliferation. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Human PASMCs were cultured in vitro...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Wang CG,Lei W,Li C,Zeng DX,Huang JA

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:Activity for nonspecific esterases has been demonstrated histochemically in fetal rabbit lungs using alpha-naphthyl acetate as substrate. Commencing with a homogeneous distribution in pseudoglandular lungs, activity gradually heightens in the epithelium, progresses centrifugally along the bronchial tree, and reaches f...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Sorokin SP,Hoyt RF Jr

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The streptozotocin-induced diabetic (STZ-DB) rat model is associated with fetal hyperglycemia, but with low to normal plasma insulin concentration. Because surfactant protein (SP) mRNA content in fetal rat lung is decreased in STZ-DB pregnancy, we investigated the effect of increasing concentrations of glucose on SP g...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Rayani HH,Gewolb IH,Floros J

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：: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：:In a recent study of the sheep tracheal lobe model, we have demonstrated that surface chemistry modification of quartz by aluminum lactate significantly alters the biological activity of quartz for at least 2 months after exposure. In the present study, we have extended our observations of the biological reaction of t...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Bégin R,Massé S,Sébastien P,Martel M,Bossé J,Dubois F,Geoffroy M,Labbé J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant expression of key cell cycle regulatory genes is essential for the immortalization and transformation of cells in vitro. We examined 20 mouse lung epithelial cell lines (2 nontumorigenic, 5 nonmetastatic, and 13 metastatic) for mutations or alterations in the expression of key components of the Rb pathway (pR...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： McDoniels-Silvers AL,Herzog CR,Tyson FL,Malkinson AM,You M

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is believed to play a key role in the pathophysiology of meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS). PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:The objective was to determine whether the recombinant human Erythropoietin (rhEPO) pretreatment could attenuate meconium-induced inflammation. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In this study,...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Turhan AH,Atici A,Muşlu N,Polat A,Sungur MA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) has constrictor and mitogenic effects on airway smooth muscle strips and cultured cells, respectively. This study addresses the type of the ET receptor subtype(s) present on ovine airway smooth muscle cells and the possibility of autocrine effects. The expression of the preproendothelin-1 gene was ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Ergul A,Glassberg MK,Wanner A,Puett D

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Acute exposure to NO2 is reported to disrupt tight junctions in lung epithelium. We have studied the effects of chronic NO2 exposure and recovery breathing clean air to tight junctions of distal airway and alveolar epithelium. Syrian Golden hamsters were exposed to NO2 (30 PPM) for 5 or 9 months and a group of those a...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Gordon RE,Solano D,Kleinerman J

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：:Three-day-old rabbits were given intratracheal injections of radiolabeled natural sheep surfactant, rabbit surfactant, or liposomes of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine that contained greater than three times the quantity of phosphatidylcholine present in the endogenous surfactant pool. The recoveries of radiolabeled pho...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Oguchi K,Ikegami M,Jacobs H,Jobe A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：:Human and canine airway mucosal explants synthesize and secrete high molecular weight glycoconjugates, incorporating 14C-glucosamine, a radioactive precursor to epithelial glycoprotein. Our examination of secretions produced by several individual specimens, however, did not reveal epithelial glycoprotein of typical bu...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Bhaskar KR,O'Sullivan DD,Opaskar-Hincman H,Reid LM,Coles SJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanisms linking behavioral stress and inflammation are poorly understood, mainly in distal lung tissue. OBJECTIVE:We have investigated whether the forced swim stress (FS) could modulate lung tissue mechanics, iNOS, cytokines, oxidative stress activation, eosinophilic recruitment, and remodeling in guinea...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Reis FG,Marques RH,Starling CM,Almeida-Reis R,Vieira RP,Cabido CT,Silva LF,Lanças T,Dolhnikoff M,Martins MA,Leick-Maldonado EA,Prado CM,Tibério IF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, the authors have shown that tracheal occlusion (TO) partially reverses the onset of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) and abnormal pulmonary vascular development whereas release of the occlusion (TR) abolishes these clinical benefits. As a consequence of their mitoge...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Cloutier M,Seaborn T,Piedboeuf B,Bratu I,Flageole H,Laberge JM

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：: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：:The aim of this study was to determine influence of prenatal granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) administration on lung growth, maturation, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression. Twenty Wistar rats received sterile saline (1 mL) or recombinant human GM-CSF (50 micro g/kg) on da...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Yuksel H,Yilmaz O,Baytur YB,Ozbilgin K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00