Olsen CE, Liguori AE, Zong Y, Lantz RC, Burgess JL, Boitano S. Arsenic upregulates MMP - 9 and inhibits wound repair in human
airway epithelial cells.
My laboratory aims to identify, characterize and validate lncRNA - driven pathways active in allergy - driving helper T cells and
airway epithelial cells that could hold promise as therapeutic targets in altering the aberrant immune responses underlying asthma.
Hypertonic Saline Primes Activation of the p53 — p21 Signaling Axis in Human Small
Airway Epithelial Cells That Prevents Inflammation Induced by Pro-inflammatory Cytokines.
The research team then tested RMC - 1 in cultured human
airway epithelial cells and mouse models of asthma (via injection into the animals» peritoneal cavities).
Microscopic images show that RMC - 1 prevented FOXM1 from entering the nucleus in cultured human
airway epithelial cells and in mouse allergen - sensitized respiratory airways.
Because
airway epithelial cells are tightly connected, the researchers posited that the membrane proteins on opposite sides don't normally mix.
But
airway epithelial cells contain both molecules at all times, so researchers wondered what keeps healthy tissues from growing out of control.
Physical separation of the two proteins is an «easy - to - conceptualize mechanism by which
airway epithelial cells are poised to heal themselves the moment they are injured.»
The airway epithelial cells that the method relies on are continuously shed, he notes.
Not exact matches
It then travels down the respiratory tract and binds to
epithelial cells lining the lung
airways via specific molecules on the
cell surface.
Human nasal
epithelial cells, cultured on a microchip, react to air pollutants just like they would in the upper
airway.
«In our human
airway epithelial model system, one of the drugs destabilizes and deactivates the protein that the other drug tries to correct,» said Martina Gentzsch, PhD, an assistant professor of
cell biology and physiology and senior author of the UNC Science Translational Medicine paper.
They found that infection of the narrowest
airways of the lung by PIV3 alone caused moderate levels of inflammation, but after infection by PIV3 expressing RSV NS2, the
epithelial cells lining the narrow
airways were shed rapidly into the
airway lumen.
While the PIV - infected
epithelial cells retained their natural elongated, columnar shape, the same
cells infected with RSV balled up and puffed out of the
airway epithelium, causing the infected
cells to accumulate in the lumen of the
airway.
Using animal models, Pickles has already found candidate molecular biomarkers that indicate if the
epithelial cells in the tiniest
airways are expressing the RSV NS2 protein.
In this case, AAV acts as a Trojan horse and leads
epithelial cells in the
airways to make the antibodies; the question is how long they will continue doing so.
«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe
airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a
cell culture model of human
epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung
airway.
«But what we've now shown is that RSV has an increased ability to cause
airway obstruction because, during an RSV infection, the virus expresses a specific RSV - encoded non-structural protein, or NS2, in
epithelial cells, causing the
cells to shed from the
airway lining and into the
airway lumen.
«It was known that the
epithelial cells which line the
airways in the lungs produce a protein called thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) that causes inflammation.
The human
airway is lined with two kinds of
epithelial cells — those that possess hairlike fringes called cilia and those that don't.
Local blockade of
epithelial PDL - 1 in the
airways enhances T
cell function and viral clearance during influenza virus infection.
The higher scores (> 3) in some groups related primarily to the fact that virus infection had induced inflammatory infiltrates and
epithelial cell necrosis with desquamation of the epithelium and collection of cellular debris in
airways of these animals.
In the vaccine comparison experiment, lung lesion scores for histopathology were graded for individual animals on a scale of 0 to 4 where 0 — 2 represented degree of cellular infiltration and 3 — 4 represented the degree of bronchiolar
epithelial cell necrosis and
airway cellular debris (figure 2A).
Ciliary dyskinesis - This is a syndrome which has been reported in the Chinese Shar - Pei in which the cilia (microscopic hair - like projections on the
epithelial cells which line the upper
airways) are malformed or nonexistent.
ALI - FRECs morphologically resembled the natural
airways of cats with multilayered columnar
epithelial cells and cilia.