...) by alveolar macrophages. Methods: Alveolar macrophages from 16 patients with granulomatous lung diseases [8 with sarcoidosis, 8 with extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA)], 16 patients with IPF, and 8 control subjects were cultured for 24 h. IL-8, IL-18, IP-10 and MIG in the culture supernatants were measured...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Calcitriol lα,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 Tumor necrosis factor Signal transduction Alveolar macrophage Original Paper Respiration 1995;62:89-94 Y. Higashimotoa M. Ohataa Y. Iwamotob H. Fujimoio3 K. IJetania T. Surudaa Y...

... antagonists. A similar analysis could be applied to chemotactic factors for fibroblasts as well as for those stimulating collagen production 20 1 2009 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Alveolar macrophage Growth factors Interleukin 1 antagonist Collagen production © 1990 S. Karger AG, Basel...

... and release LTB 4 . Laviolette et al. reported the decrease of LTB 4 synthesis in smokers’ alveolar macrophages (AM). In this paper, we report the chronic effects of passive smoking on the production of LTB 4 by rat AM. Some rats inhaled tobacco smoke and some inhaled smoke which did not contain nicotine. LTB...

.... It was recently shown that alveolar macrophages had ACE activity in their sonicated and homogenate forms. We investigated ACE activity of human alveolar macrophages in the intact form using a sensitive radioimmunoassay of generated angiotensin II. We also investigated the effect of smoking on ACE activity...

...Yasushi Shiratori; Hiroyoshi Kino; Norinari Honda; Masashi Mori; Tsuneaki Sugimoto The effect of autologous alveolar macrophages on the lymphoproliferative response to mitogens was investigated using Calmette-Guérin bacillus (BCG)-immunized rats. The proliferation of lymphocytes obtained from...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Sarcoidosis Alveolar macrophage Angiotensin...

... of this study was to investigate the mechanism of the effect of alveolar macrophages (AM) from CS-exposed mice on B lymphocyte proliferation stimulated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Methods: Mice were exposed to CS using a Hamburg smoking machine, and AM were obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage...

... on its anti-inflammatory effect. Objective: In this study, the antioxidant levels were analyzed as an anti-inflammatory effect of erythromycin in the patients. Methods: We investigated the activity and protein level of an antioxidant enzyme, Cu, Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD) in alveolar macrophages (AMs...