abstract：:Degradation of preexisting and newly synthesized extracellular matrix is thought to play an important role in tissue remodeling. The current study evaluated whether thrombin and TNF-alpha/IL-1beta could collaboratively induce collagen degradation by human fetal lung fibroblasts (HFL-1) and adult bronchial fibroblasts ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Fang Q,Liu X,Al-Mugotir M,Kobayashi T,Abe S,Kohyama T,Rennard SI

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stimulation of the airway epithelium, as would occur during bronchoconstriction, is a potent stimulus and can activate profibrotic pathways. We used DNA microarray technology to examine gene expression in compressed normal human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBE). Compressive stress applied continuously over...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chu EK,Cheng J,Foley JS,Mecham BH,Owen CA,Haley KJ,Mariani TJ,Kohane IS,Tschumperlin DJ,Drazen JM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine is a signaling nucleoside that has been proposed to contribute to the pathogenesis of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Previous studies suggest that adenosine might play an important role in modulating levels of inflammatory mediators in the lung. Because airway epithelium is an important ce...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Zhong H,Wu Y,Belardinelli L,Zeng D

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise role of each nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) isoform in the pathobiology of asthma is not well established. Our objective was to investigate the contribution of constitutive NO synthase (cNOS) and inducible NOS (iNOS) isoforms to lung mechanics and inflammatory and remodeling responses in an experimental ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Prado CM,Leick-Maldonado EA,Yano L,Leme AS,Capelozzi VL,Martins MA,Tibério IF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung development is associated with a surge in surfactant phosphatidylcholine (PC) production to prepare the newborn for extrauterine breathing. This process is associated with a marked increase in the activity of the rate-regulatory surfactant enzyme, CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (CCTalpha). To investigate...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： McCoy DM,Fisher K,Robichaud J,Ryan AJ,Mallampalli RK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is characterized by appearance of eosinophils in the airway. Eosinophils purified from the airway 48 h after segmental antigen challenge are described as exhibiting greater adhesion to albumin-coated surfaces via an unidentified beta2 integrin and increased expression of alphaMbeta2 (CD11b/18) compared with pur...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Barthel SR,Jarjour NN,Mosher DF,Johansson MW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a key enzyme involved in the inflammatory process that is rapidly induced in macrophages in response to LPS. Carbon monoxide (CO), a byproduct of heme oxygnease-1, can suppress proinflammatory response in various in vitro and in vivo models of inflammation. This study was undertaken to exam...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Suh GY,Jin Y,Yi AK,Wang XM,Choi AM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the relative efficacy of a range of natural and synthetic retinoids on the induction of alveolar regeneration in a dexamethasone-treated mouse model. The aim was to explore the roles of the different retinoic acid receptors using receptor-selective agonists and to determine whether other natural r...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Maden M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of G protein-coupled receptor by dopamine and hypoxia-generated reactive oxygen species promote Na+,K+-ATPase endocytosis. This effect is clathrin dependent and involves the activation of protein kinase C (PKC)-zeta and phosphorylation of the Na+,K+-ATPase alpha-subunit. Because the incorporation of cargo i...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chen Z,Krmar RT,Dada L,Efendiev R,Leibiger IB,Pedemonte CH,Katz AI,Sznajder JI,Bertorello AM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar epithelial type II cells secrete lung surfactant via exocytosis. Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNARE) are implicated in this process. Lipid rafts, the cholesterol- and sphingolipid-rich microdomains, may offer a platform for protein organization on the cell membrane. ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chintagari NR,Jin N,Wang P,Narasaraju TA,Chen J,Liu L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The doxycycline-inducible, gene regulatory system allows tight control of transgene expression for the study of organ development and disease pathogenesis. Multiple recent reports have employed this model to investigate various lung diseases including emphysema. For our study, we used this transgenic system to test wh...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Sisson TH,Hansen JM,Shah M,Hanson KE,Du M,Ling T,Simon RH,Christensen PJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with bacteria and viruses such as adenovirus are a feature of chronic lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), and may be instrumental in the generation of disease exacerbations. We have previously shown in acute models that elafin (a lung natural chemotactic molecule for macroph...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Roghanian A,Williams SE,Sheldrake TA,Brown TI,Oberheim K,Xing Z,Howie SE,Sallenave JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LL-37 is a human cationic host defense peptide that is present in the specific granules of neutrophils, produced by epithelial cells from a variety of tissues, and is upregulated during inflammation, infection, and injury. It has been proposed to have a variety of antimicrobial functions, including both direct antimic...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lau YE,Bowdish DM,Cosseau C,Hancock RE,Davidson DJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) play a pivotal role in shaping antiviral immune responses in the respiratory tract. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a recently identified pathogen and like its better known relative, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), has been increasingly recognized as a major cause of respiratory morbidity in i...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Guerrero-Plata A,Casola A,Suarez G,Yu X,Spetch L,Peeples ME,Garofalo RP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary accumulation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/usual interstitial pneumonia (IFP/UIP) has been linked to (1) increased migration of a circulating pool of fibrocytes, (2) cell proliferation, and (3) resistance to apoptosis. The mechanism of physiologic apoptosis of lung fibrob...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Frankel SK,Cosgrove GP,Cha SI,Cool CD,Wynes MW,Edelman BL,Brown KK,Riches DW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the lung is repeatedly subjected to injury by pathogens and toxicants, maintenance of pulmonary homeostasis requires rapid repair of its epithelial surfaces. Ciliated bronchiolar epithelial cells, previously considered as terminally differentiated, underwent squamous cell metaplasia within hours after bronchiola...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Park KS,Wells JM,Zorn AM,Wert SE,Laubach VE,Fernandez LG,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term success in lung transplantation is limited by obliterative bronchiolitis, whereas T cell effector mechanisms in this process remain incompletely understood. Using the mouse heterotopic allogeneic airway transplant model, we studied T cell effector responses during obliterative airways disease (OAD). Allospec...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： West EE,Lavoie TL,Orens JB,Chen ES,Ye SQ,Finkelman FD,Garcia JG,McDyer JF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexavalent chromium (Cr[VI]) is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a group I carcinogen. Although the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration was obliged to reduce the permissible exposure limit (PEL), it was reported that U.S. workers continue to be exposed to dangerously high...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Russo P,Catassi A,Cesario A,Imperatori A,Rotolo N,Fini M,Granone P,Dominioni L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MyD88 is an adapter protein required for the induction of proinflammatory cytokines by most Toll-like receptors (TLR), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa expresses ligands for multiple TLRs. MyD88(-/-) (KO) mice are highly susceptible to aerosolized P. aeruginosa, failing to elicit an early inflammatory response and permittin...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hajjar AM,Harowicz H,Liggitt HD,Fink PJ,Wilson CB,Skerrett SJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify relationships amongst tracheal and alveolar epithelial cells during lung development, we used conditional systems controlled by the rat CCSP and human SFTPC gene promoters to express Cre-recombinase in the developing mouse lung, thereby permanently labeling cells by expression of alkaline phosphatase or gr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Perl AK,Wert SE,Loudy DE,Shan Z,Blair PA,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic epidemiology studies of end-stage lung disease are potentially hindered by low numbers of participants due to early death of patients from the underlying disease, or due to exclusion from studies after patients have had lung transplants, because of concern about bias of genotype data due to chimerism. The numb...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： DeMeo DL,Reilly JJ,Ginns LC,Sylvia JS,Silverman EK

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils are an important source of leukotriene (LT)C(4), which can be synthesized within lipid bodies-cytoplasmic organelles where eicosanoid formation may take place. Allergy-driven lipid body formation and function have never been investigated. Here, we studied the in vivo induction and role of lipid bodies with...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Vieira-de-Abreu A,Assis EF,Gomes GS,Castro-Faria-Neto HC,Weller PF,Bandeira-Melo C,Bozza PT

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether an intact bone marrow is essential to lung repair following bleomycin-induced lung injury in mice, and the mechanisms of any protective effects conferred by bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BMDMSC) transfer. We found that myelosupression increased susceptibility to bleomycin in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Rojas M,Xu J,Woods CR,Mora AL,Spears W,Roman J,Brigham KL

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial challenges remain in our understanding of fibrotic lung diseases. Nowhere is this more true than in the elucidation and verification of the pathogenetic basis upon which they develop. Scientific progress, most recently in the field of experimental therapy, has relied closely on interpreting data derived fr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Chua F,Gauldie J,Laurent GJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protease-antiprotease imbalance that is characteristic of most inflammatory lung disorders depends on the spatial-temporal regulation of active inhibitor and protease concentrations in lung secretions. We have studied the competition between the three main serine proteases from human neutrophil primary granules in...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Korkmaz B,Poutrain P,Hazouard E,de Monte M,Attucci S,Gauthier FL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) is found in exhaled breath and is produced by airway epithelia. In addition, H(2)O(2) is a necessary substrate for the airway lactoperoxidase (LPO) anti-infection system. To investigate the source of H(2)O(2) produced by airway epithelia, PCR was used to screen nicotinamide adenine dinucle...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Forteza R,Salathe M,Miot F,Forteza R,Conner GE

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is necessary for normal postnatal lung development and may underlie the structural lung damage that follows hyperoxic exposure. To determine the individual roles of VEGF receptors (VEGFR) 2 and 1 on postnatal lung growth, neonatal mice were treated with neutralizing antibodies...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： McGrath-Morrow SA,Cho C,Cho C,Zhen L,Hicklin DJ,Tuder RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:German cockroach extract synergistically regulates tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced interleukin (IL)-8 expression in human airway epithelial cells. The IL-8 promoter contains nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB, activating protein (AP)-1, and NF for IL-6 (NF-IL6) transcription factor binding regions. Because coc...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Page K,Hughes VS,Odoms KK,Dunsmore KE,Hershenson MB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is known that surfactant lipids and proteins are altered in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, the mechanisms and implications of these alterations are not clear. In this study, the effects of P. aeruginosa on the surfactant large aggregate fraction were examined using an in vitro surface are...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Beatty AL,Malloy JL,Wright JR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in animals and in human atopic skin suggest that allergen challenge may activate acute tissue remodeling changes via transforming growth factor-beta pathways. We determined whether inhalational allergen challenge in subjects with mild asthma induces similar acute changes to the airway epithelial mesenchymal tr...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Phipps S,Benyahia F,Ou TT,Barkans J,Robinson DS,Kay AB

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway epithelial cells produce a number of chemokines, including eotaxins. Among the three known eotaxins, T helper (Th) type 2 cytokines have been observed to induce the expression of eotaxin-3 mRNA. This study investigated the effect of interferon (IFN)-gamma, a Th1 cytokine, on Th2 cytokine-induced eotaxin-3 produ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yamamoto S,Kobayashi I,Tsuji K,Nishi N,Muro E,Miyazaki M,Zaitsu M,Inada S,Ichimaru T,Hamasaki Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary fibrosis is an enigmatic and devastating disease with few treatment options, now thought to result from abnormal wound healing in the lung in response to injury. We have previously noted a role for the chemokine interferon gamma-inducible protein of 10 kD (IP-10)/CXC chemokine ligand 10 in the regulation of ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Tager AM,Kradin RL,LaCamera P,Bercury SD,Campanella GS,Leary CP,Polosukhin V,Zhao LH,Sakamoto H,Blackwell TS,Luster AD

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 70% of patients with cystic fibrosis have the DeltaF508 mutation. This protein is a partially functional chloride (Cl-) channel that is prematurely degraded in the endoplasmic reticulum. Specific members of the flavonoid class of compounds have been shown to increase Cl- conductance of wild-type and DeltaF508 cys...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Lim M,McKenzie K,Floyd AD,Kwon E,Zeitlin PL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nitric oxide (NO) is known to inhibit vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, the subcellular molecular mechanisms involved with the inhibitory signal transduction pathways are uncertain. We investigated the effect of exogenous NO on cell proliferation and the expression of p53, p21, and phosphorylated p42...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Mizuno S,Kadowaki M,Demura Y,Ameshima S,Miyamori I,Ishizaki T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant is an apically-secreted surface-active material containing primarily disaturated phosphatidylcholine (DSPtdCho) that is released from alveolar epithelia into the alveolus. Surfactant deficiency is an important aspect of inflammatory lung disease and may result from extravasation of serum lipoproteins into t...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Agassandian M,Mathur SN,Zhou J,Field FJ,Mallampalli RK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) metabolizes polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cigarette smoke to DNA-binding reactive intermediates associated with carcinogenesis. Epidemiologic studies indicate that the majority of coal miners are smokers but have a lower risk of lung cancer than other smokers. We hypothesized that coa...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Ghanem MM,Porter D,Battelli LA,Vallyathan V,Kashon ML,Ma JY,Barger MW,Nath J,Castranova V,Hubbs AF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described a reduction of silica-induced lung fibrosis in interleukin-10-deficient mice (IL-10-/-) (Huaux and colleagues; Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 1998;18:51-59). In the present study, we further dissect the exact functions of IL-10 in experimental silicosis. The reduced lung fibrotic response to si...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Barbarin V,Arras M,Misson P,Delos M,McGarry B,Phan SH,Lison D,Huaux F

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolides have been shown to be effective in treating diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), although the precise modes of action remain unclear. At sites of airway inflammation, respiratory epithelium is considered an active participant in regulating neutrophil survival. We therefore examined the effect of erythromycin, cl...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Yamasawa H,Oshikawa K,Ohno S,Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reach the sites of inflammation, neutrophils traverse the endothelium, its underlying basement membrane, and other barriers depending on the localization of the insulting agent. Whether neutrophil elastase (NE) plays a role in neutrophil recruitment to inflamed sites is still debatable. By exploiting mice deficient...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Hirche TO,Atkinson JJ,Bahr S,Belaaouaj A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated mechanisms underlying apical and basolateral P2Y(1)-mediated Cl(-) secretion in human airway epithelial cells. Apical and basolateral ATP induced short-circuit currents (I(sc)) with different properties via P2Y(1) receptors. The former comprised an immediate rise followed by a slow atten...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

authors： Son M,Ito Y,Sato S,Ishikawa T,Kondo M,Nakayama S,Shimokata K,Kume H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00