A study published in Particle Fibre and Toxicology compares the impact of emissions from break pads and diesel on lung cells. Dr Robert Hynds, Group Leader, Epithelial Cell Biology in ENT Research ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a systemic disease and continues to be the leading cause of infectious mortality worldwide.1 Despite decades of advancements in patient care, mortality rates have ...

Here, Xin Pan and colleagues found that activation of thyroid hormone receptor-β is necessary for alveolar epithelial cell differentiation during lung repair and regeneration, and confirmed a ...

one more closely resembling alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells (SPC-high), and the other with epithelial-mesenchymal-transition (EMT)-associated gene expression (Hmga2-high). Each state exhibited distinct ...

Upregulation of S100a4 was observed in fibrotic lung tissue of patients and attributed to an increase in FSP-1 expressing fibroblasts (9) or to an increased expression by SFTPC (pulmonary-associated ...

As mentioned above, megalin is centrally involved in albumin uptake in epithelial cells by CME. Conversely ... as well as in altered alveolar-capillary barrier function and impaired resolution of ...

hotmail.com Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterised by the aberrant epithelial to mesenchymal transition ... by means of adherence properties on a culture cell plate. Human ...

The initial exudative phase involves the leakage of proteinaceous fluid and the migration of cells, in particular neutrophils, from the circulation into the interstitium and alveolar space following ...

Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast ...

UC San Diego researchers have identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms that transform healthy stem cells into oral cancer at the earliest stages of the disease ...