Schisandrin B inhibits TGF-β1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in human A549 cells through epigenetic silencing of ZEB1.

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：: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：:Increase in intracellular adenosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) is a common pathway for many clinically used drugs to cause pulmonary artery (PA) relaxation. Activity of sarcolemmal K+ and Cl(-)-channels is an important determinant of membrane potential (Em), which, in turn, plays a critical role in regulating ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Zhao YJ,Wang J,Rubin LJ,Yuan XJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both hyperoxia-induced proapoptotic sensitization of alveolar type II cells (TII cells) and high-stretch mechanical ventilation induced pulmonary inflammation are tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) mediated. Therefore, binding of free TNFalpha should protect from TNFalpha-mediated acute lung injury and ameliorate ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Guthmann F,Wissel H,Rüstow B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verapamil, a calcium channel blocker has been used with partial success in cases of primary pulmonary hypertension, as well as to reduce hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) in rats. However, its effect on monocrotaline (MCT)-induced PH in rats is not known. We studied the effect of verapamil on MCT-induced PH....

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Mathew R,Guzowski DE,Gloster ES

更新日期：1990-11-01 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

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：: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：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：: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：:To study the pattern of lymphokines in bleomycin-induced lung injury, T cells were isolated from lung interstitial tissue (LIL), peribronchial lymphatic tissue (PBLT), and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of bleomycin-"sensitive" C57Bl/6 and bleomycin-"resistant" BALB/c mice at 3, 6, and 14 days following intratrach...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Gur I,Or R,Segel MJ,Shriki M,Izbicki G,Breuer R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during hyperoxia contribute to alveolar epithelial apoptosis. In the present study, the molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress-induced alveolar epithelial cell apoptosis were investigated. The cytoprotective effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) were evaluated. Treatments ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Fu YQ,Fang F,Lu ZY,Kuang FW,Xu F

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Few studies are available about the role of dietary zinc (Zn) in respiratory diseases. Adult male rats were divided into 2 groups and fed respectively a moderate Zn-deficient diet and a Zn-adequate control diet. In lung tissue at 2 months, thiobarbituric acid-reactive species (TBARS), total glutathione, glutathione di...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Gomez NN,Fernandez MR,Zirulnik F,Gil E,Scardapane L,Ojeda MS,Gimenez MS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural features of the ovine pleura are described using light, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy. Extensive sampling of the visceral and parietal pleura revealed considerable variation in both surface morphology and pleural interstitial anatomy. Variations of mesothelial surface were encountered a...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Mariassy AT,Wheeldon EB

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of proteoglycans by primary cultures of 19-day gestation fetal rat lung Type II pneumonocytes was studied. The cells were grown in the presence of [3H]-glucosamine and/or [35S]-Na2SO4 and the radioactive label incorporated into proteoglycans was analyzed. Proteoglycans of high molecular weight (approxima...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Skinner SJ,Post M,Torday JS,Stiles AD,Smith BT

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Wild-type K-ras is tumor suppressive in mouse lung, but mutant K-ras is actively oncogenic. Thus, the mutant protein must acquire new, dominant protumorigenic properties. Generation of reactive oxygen species could be one such property. The authors demonstrate increased peroxides in lung epithelial cells (E10)-transfe...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Maciag A,Anderson LM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COPD remains a public health problem that has yet to be fully recognized by the public, the medical community or public health (government) officials, and much work remains to be done worldwide to reverse the increasing trends of this chronic lung disease. ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Hurd S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experiments with the sheep model of silicosis have demonstrated a reduction of the pathological activity of quartz after treatments with aluminum lactate (Al-lac), such as Al-lac pretreatment of intratracheally injected quartz or Al-lac inhalation of quartz-exposed animals. Preliminary data also suggested a m...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Dufresne A,Sébastien P,Michaud D,Perrault G,Bégin R

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Hypercholesterolemia contributes to cardiovascular diseases, but its direct effect on lung is little known. 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to exert numerous effects that are dependent and independent of their cholesterol-lowering property. The authors hyp...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Duan S,Zhang Y,Wu SJ,Jiang LZ,Zhang J,Gan Y,Chen P,Zhao SP,Li GY

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) involvement in translocation of dust to bronchial lymph nodes after deposition of dust in the lungs of control and neutropenic F344/N rats. Rats were rendered neutropenic with an intraperitoneal (IP) injection of anti-rat PMN antiserum (APA); control rats were inj...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Snipes MB,Harkema JR,Hotchkiss JA,Bice DE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tannic acid was used as a mordant to enhance the preservation of lung phospholipids during fixation and processing for electron microscopy. We found multilamellar bodies within alveolar septa (including type I pneumocytes, capillary endothelial cells, and interstitium) which have not been described previously and whic...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kalina M,Young SL

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：: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：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：:This study investigated whether interleukin-1 (IL-1) inhibitory activity in LPS-stimulated culture supernatants of alveolar macrophages and epithelioid cells obtained from rabbit lung granulomas induced by complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) was identical to IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) and examined the changes of I...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Shigenaga T,Abe Y,Miyazaki E,Kita S,Tsuda T

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:The diabetic pregnancy is characterized by a delay in the process of fetal lung maturation. To determine whether high glucose conditions per se have an adverse impact on fetal lung phospholipid metabolism, 20-day fetal rat lung explants were cultured in F-12 medium (10 mM glucose) to which glucose was added to achieve...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Gewolb IH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00