Sentences with phrase «on lung inflammation»

In Dr. Patricia Silveyra's lab, we investigate the effect of allergens and environmental pollutants on lung inflammation to develop therapeutic treatments for respiratory diseases.

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E-cigarette vapors also «produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage,» notes Thomas Sussan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the study, published February 4 in PLOS ONE.

Current clinical management for asthma focuses on reducing lung and airway inflammation triggered by allergens, such as house dust mites, mold, etc..

Lead researchers Associate Professor Chrishan Samuel and Dr Simon Royce tested the efficacy of the MSCs on three key components of asthma in a preclinical model of chronic allergic airways disease: inflammation; airway remodeling (structural changes that occur in lungs as a result of prolonged inflammation); and airway hyperresponsiveness (the clinical symptom of asthma).

Data on patients receiving active drug in the trial were consistent with a dose - dependent improvement in some parameters of lung function examined in the study, including methacholine challenge test and peak expiratory flow rates, as well as in a biomarker associated with asthma severity and inflammation.

Furthermore we made the discovery that in a model of lung inflammation the anti-inflammatory action of glucocorticoids is not dependent on the inhibition of pro-inflammatory mediators, but rather requires cooperation with pro-inflammatory signaling pathways (e.g. p38) to induce anti-inflammatory acting genes and alternative polarization of macrophages.

Research Focus: My research projects are focused on identifying the role of different TNFSF / TNFRSF superfamily members and other co-stimulatory molecules in regulating memory Th2 and regulatory T cells during allergic lung inflammation.

In 2012 she joined the laboratory of Dr. D.L. Konotyiannis at BSRC AL.Fleming, Greece as postdoctoral scientist, where she worked on the study of the RNA Binding Protein HuR during intestinal and lung inflammation and cancer, using inducible, KO and Tg mouse models and xenografts.

It's no secret that smoking is harmful, but it's been hard to study its effects on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that leaves sufferers short of breath thanks to inflammation of the small airways in the lung.

Individuals were examined on evaluation of breathing, lung function, quality of life, and also level of inflammation.

, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Rhamnazin on Lipopolysaccharide - Induced Acute Lung Injury and Inflammation in Rats, 2017

The benefits of fasting and calorie restriction also has some nice little research such as: — increased longevity — reducing oxidative stress — reducing inflammation — reduce risk of heart disease — improving neuroendocrine responses — increasing GH secretion — protective effects on heart, lung, brain — decrease in insulin resistance and other overall disease prevention and life extension factors....

Was doing research on lung disease and inflammation and was glad to come across your mention of anatabine citrate.

Lung issues Chronic inflammation in the lungs is a consider several troubles, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD), which includes persistent bronchitis and emphysema, as well as infections, baseding on the Lovelace Respiratory Study Institute.

Instead, they may have problems with their joints, skin, lungs, mood, brain function, or fatigue, depending on how inflammation affects that person.

Based on a true story, Everest sketches out the dangers, which include cerebral inflammation and lungs filling with fluid as well as the expected frozen toes and death under the weight of an avalanche.

The report mentioned that the gene could even «shed light on the causes of lung injuries» but turned out they were talking about «injuries» like pneumonia, inflammation or pulmonary fibrosis.

His heartworm load was severe, so he spent the first three months in foster care being on antibiotics and steroids to help decrease the inflammation around his heart and lungs.