Epidermal growth factor is a positive in vivo regulator of CTP:cholinephosphate cytidylyltransferase.

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) generates angiotensin II and degrades bradykinin. This ectopeptidase acts as a marker in pathologic conditions, showing tissue and vascular damage. In order to evaluate serum and tissue ACE activity in bleomycin-associated lung damage, the authors studied morphological and enzymatic...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Ziai SA,Salehian P,Mahmoudian M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban air consists of a combination of environmental pollutants. Recent studies have suggested that normally innocuous doses of a particular pollutant may be rendered more toxic to the lung if primed by earlier events. Pulmonary inflammation has been observed in humans and in many animal species after endotoxin and oz...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Johnston CJ,Oberdörster G,Gelein R,Finkelstein JN

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently there has been a great deal of interest in exploring possible ways to protect the lung from oxidant damage. Since sulfhydryl compounds are among the most important endogenous antioxidants, their therapeutic use has been proposed. Glutathione (GSH), the main intracellular nonprotein sulfhydryl, plays an import...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Patterson CE,Rhoades RA

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Intratracheal bleomycin induces pulmonary fibrosis in experimental animals, but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Since altered levels of fatty acid metabolites are associated with bleomycin-induced lung injury, we examined the effects of a change in dietary fat on bleomycin-induced fibrosis. Previously w...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Kennedy JI Jr,Chandler DB,Fulmer JD,Wert MB,Grizzle WE

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) represents a major cause of mortality in intensive care patients. Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPAR-α) by fibrates, such as WY-14643 (WY), has been described to beneficially influence inflammation and experimental lung injury...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Hecker M,Behnk A,Morty RE,Sommer N,Vadász I,Herold S,Seeger W,Mayer K

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：:A deletional analysis of the SP-A1 promoter in NCI-H441 cells was performed to identify potential cis-acting elements involved in phorbol ester-mediated repression of human SP-A transcription. The phorbol ester TPA reduced SP-A1 and SP-A2 promoter activity to approximately 35% to 45% compared to that of control cells....

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Hoover RR,Pavlovic J,Floros J

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:Purpose/Aim of Study: Studies of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) have resulted in DNA damage, inflammatory response, and cellular senescence being widely hypothesized to play a role in the progression of the disease. Utilizing these aforementioned terms, genomics databases were interrogated along with the term, "pulmonary fib...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Beach TA,Johnston CJ,Groves AM,Williams JP,Finkelstein JN

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HSPGs are glycoproteins containing covalently attached heparan sulfate (HS) chains which bind to growth factors, chemokines, etc., and regulate various aspects of inflammation including cell recruitment. We previously showed that deletion of endothelial N-acetylglucosamine N-deacetylase-N-sulfotransferase-1 ...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Ge XN,Bastan I,Ha SG,Greenberg YG,Esko JD,Rao SP,Sriramarao P

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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

abstract：:The effects of urban air and diesel particles on inflammatory cytokine gene expression, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in particular, were studied in rat alveolar macrophages. TNF-alpha, interleukin (IL)-1, IL-6, cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC), and macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-2 g...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Dong W,Lewtas J,Luster MI

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：: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：:During lung development, the extracellular matrix undergoes dynamic remodeling. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), and tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMPs), are important enzymes that participate in regulating tissue remodeling. There is an abnormal balance of the synthesis and degradation of collagen...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Lemke RP,Zhang W,Balcerazak D,Kobayashi K,Schwingshackl A,Cheung PY,Dixon WT,Baracos VE,Greer JJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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

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：:Silicosis is a serious occupational disease characterized by lung fibrosis that is caused by long-term inhalation of silica-containing fine particles. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and LPA1/3 plays a role in lung fibrosis. Until recently, there has been little research investigating the role of LPA and LPA receptors (LP...

journal_title：Experimental lung research

authors： Cong C,Mao L,Zhang Y,Zhao Z,Xu X,Zhao J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00