Sentences with phrase «human airway»

They show that RMC - 1 treatment prevents overproduction of mucous - generating goblet cells in the lungs of mice with asthma and in human airway cell cultures.

When Liesman infected human airway cells in the lab with this re-engineered virus, she saw infected cells ball up and puff out of the airway epithelium.

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.

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.

They heightened the efficacy of the antimicrobials secreted by human airway cells, the body's natural immune response, as well.

IMAGE: Human airways already demonstrate gender - based differences in DNA methylation signatures at birth, providing an early hint of which infants may be predisposed to develop respiratory disorders like asthma later in...

MERS CoV (CoV stands for coronavirus) has on its surface an array of spike - shaped proteins that bind to host cells — specifically to receptor proteins called DPP4 on the surface of cells that line human airways.

This is the technical name for the five year Europe - wide, EU funded project, which aimed to produce computer and physical models of the whole human airway system for people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

A research team from the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic took cells from the lining (epithelium) of human airways and exposed them to Alternaria.

Cilia are found inside human airways, where they help to sweep away contaminants, but these microscopic internal hairs are very difficult to study.

Here we present a novel human Airway Lung - Chip containing a fully - differentiated human mucociliary airway epithelium separated from a pulmonary microvascular endothelium by a semi-permeable membrane that allows for immune cell infiltration.

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).

WASHINGTON - Human airways already demonstrate gender - based differences in DNA methylation signatures at birth, providing an early hint of which infants may be predisposed to develop respiratory disorders like asthma later in life, a research team reports in a paper published online April 3, 2018, in Scientific Reports.

A study published in 2009 found that oral consumption of sulforaphane reduced inflammation in human airways by increasing naturally occurring enzymes in the body.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer development.

Cohen said that the current study is the first to elucidate a functional role for sweet receptors in the human airway.

While previous research in the last year has shown that SCCs exist in humans as well as animals, the current study was the first to reveal a function for SCC's in the human airway.

In previous work, Penn researchers found that bitter taste receptors in the human airway play a role in detecting bacterial communication molecules and launching a defensive response to combat bacteria.

«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.

In both human airway cells and mouse nasal cells, the researchers observed corrections in the targeted genes.

Since the muscle tone of the body ordinarily relaxes during sleep, and since, at the level of the throat, the human airway is composed of walls of soft tissue, which can collapse, it is easy to understand how breathing can be obstructed during sleep.

The human airway is lined with two kinds of epithelial cells — those that possess hairlike fringes called cilia and those that don't.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

The new coronavirus latches onto a protein called dipeptidyl peptidase 4, or DPP4, which decorates the surface of many cells, including some in human airways and kidneys, Bart Haagmans of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues report in the March 14 Nature.

Iowa City, IA (Scicasts)-- The human airway is a system of branching tubes that connects the nose and mouth with the lungs and allows us to inhale air, extract the vital oxygen, and exhale the waste product carbon...

Inside the system, human airway cells are exposed to the smoke in a way that mimics the natural interaction between them (Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University)

NO Chemical Events in the Human Airway During Antigen - Induced Asthmatic Response.

A multi-institution research team that includes Children's National Health System attempted to characterize gender - based epigenomic signatures in the human airway early in children's lives with a special attention to defining DNA methylation patterns of the X chromosome.

The treatment can lead to an all natural and noninvasive remodeling of the bony and soft tissues surrounding the human airway, offering patients the prospect of a lifetime of optimal air flow and airway capacity and restorative sleep.