Surface morphology and correlated phagocytic capacity of pulmonary macrophages lavaged from the lungs of rats.

abstract：:Sirius Red staining is presented as a method for collagen determination, enabling quantitative morphometric measurements to be performed in locally defined tissue areas. The advantage of this method is especially shown for alveolar lung tissue. By excluding the bronchial areas in the tissue sections, the differences i...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Malkusch W,Rehn B,Bruch J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:We have previously reported that N-acetylcysteine (NAC), ambroxol and azithromycin (AZM) (partially) correct the chloride efflux dysfunction in cystic fibrosis bronchial epithelial (CFBE) cells with the ΔF508 homozygous mutation in vitro. METHODS:In the present paper, we further investigated p...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Hussain S,Varelogianni G,Särndahl E,Roomans GM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a key role in lung injury and in the pathogenesis of asthma. Two murine models of allergic airway inflammation-sensitization and challenge to ovalbumin (OVA) and intratracheal exposure to interleukin-13 (IL13)-were used to evaluate the expression of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) in allergic...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Havranek T,Aujla PK,Nickola TJ,Rose MC,Scavo LM

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:The central intrapulmonary bronchi of hamsters were examined by transmission electron microscopy at varying times following intratracheal instillation of human neutrophil elastase (HNE) or its vehicle, saline. Two hours after HNE treatment, there was a marked irregularity of the surfaces of many nonciliated epithelial...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Christensen TG,Breuer R,Hornstra LJ,Lucey EC,Stone PJ,Snider GL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of mice after Klebsiella pneumoniae infection and phagocytosis by alveolar macrophages (AMs), in the presence or absence of ozone (O(3)) exposure prior to infection, is sex dependent. The objective of this work was to study the role of gonadal hormones, 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and 17β-estradiol (E(2)), o...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Durrani F,Phelps DS,Weisz J,Silveyra P,Hu S,Mikerov AN,Floros J

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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：:Toluene diisocyanate (TDI) is known as one of causes of occupational asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. To investigate the stimulatory effect on bronchial epithelial cells in response to TDI, the authors examined production of cytokines by the bronchial epithelial cell line BEAS-2B and intercellular signal trans...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Ogawa H,Inoue S,Ogushi F,Ogura H,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine if prolonged hyperoxia exposure would deplete antioxidants, resulting in excessive oxidative stress that would lead to oxidation of pulmonary surfactant and contribute to lung dysfunction. Rats were exposed to either hyperoxic (> 95% O(2)) or normoxic (21% O(2)) oxygen conc...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Pace PW,Yao LJ,Wilson JX,Possmayer F,Veldhuizen RA,Lewis JF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of dexamethasone given to rats from age 4 to 14 days, on alveolar development at age 99 days. Judged by similar nose-to-tail length and body weight, somatic growth was not altered by dexamethasone treatment. Lung volumes in both air- and saline-filled lungs and mean chord length (Lm) were incre...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Sahebjami H,Domino M

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：: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：:Lung injury and inflammation are associated with exposure to various types of particulate air pollutants. The present study was used to determine whether metalloproteinases (MMPs) are secreted after instilling dust samples into the lung, and to relate levels of specific MMPs to different fractions of the ambient air p...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Adamson IY,Vincent R,Bakowska J

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Cyclin D1 dysregulation and differential inactivation of p16INK4a and Rb have been observed in human lung cancer. In chemically induced mouse lung tumors, the p16INK4a gene is a target of inactivation, and Rb is reduced at the mRNA level (Northern blot) although similar at the protein level (Western blot) when compare...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Sabourin CL,Wang QS,Ralston SL,Evans J,Coate J,Herzog CR,Jones SL,Weghorst CM,Kelloff GJ,Lubet RA,You M,Stoner GD

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：: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

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：:A number of novel chemotactic cytokines are becoming increasingly recognized as important participants in the elicitation of specific inflammatory cells from the peripheral blood to sites of inflammation. Recent observations have now demonstrated that certain chemotactic cytokines possess specificity for the selected ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kunkel SL,Standiford T,Kasahara K,Strieter RM

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：:Confluent cultures of primary hamster tracheal surface epithelial cells are highly enriched with secretory cells resembling airway goblet cells. The cultures secrete lipids, most of which appear to be associated with high-molecular-weight mucinlike glycoproteins (HMW MLGP). In the present communication, we examined th...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kim KC,Singh BN

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a main chronic lung disease commonly occurs in preterm infants. BPD is characterized by impaired alveolarization and vascularization of the developing lung. Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling pathway is known to play an important role during lung vascular devel...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Jin M,Lee J,Lee KY,Jin Z,Pak JH,Kim HS

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Leptin, an adipocyte-secreted hormone that regulates food intake and metabolic response, has been recently reported to increase in the serum during inflammatory airway disease associated with mucus-hypersecretion. We investigated the effects of leptin on mucin expression in human airway epithelial cells and the signal...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Woo HJ,Yoo WJ,Bae CH,Song SY,Kim YW,Park SY,Kim YD

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:A specific form of flavin monooxygenase has been identified in the lungs of a number of species. Distribution of the pulmonary flavin-containing monooxygenase (FMOp) is of interest because it oxidatively metabolizes a wide variety of nitrogen-, sulfur-, and phosphorous-containing xenobiotics, some of which form highly...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Overby L,Nishio SJ,Lawton MP,Plopper CG,Philpot RM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small subpopulation of pulmonary epithelial cells (PE) proliferates in low-density primary culture of alveolar type II cells and forms colonies of cells that could be passaged for several generations and that in some respects maintain a differentiated phenotype of the alveolar type II cells. At this time it is not k...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kalina M,Riklis S,Blau H

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage 24-h lung retention of 4-micrometers monodispersed Teflon particles, aerodynamic diameter about 6 micrometers, was studied twice in 8 healthy nonsmokers. The particles were inhaled at 0.5 liter/sec with maximally deep breaths. Bronchoconstriction was induced by inhalation of a methacholine-bromide aeros...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Svartengren M,Philipson K,Linnman L,Camner P

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00