Inflammation from viral infections promotes cancer metastasis, offering answers to why some cancers reawaken in humans.

The respiratory epithelium lining the airway and alveoli, where oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange occurs, consists primarily of two cell types, type 1 and 2 alveolar epithelial cells, referred to ...

To this note, we screened FDA approved reagents for their ability to enhance viral vector transduction of primary human airway epithelial cells and identified hypertonic saline as a candidate that ...

(B) Presence of key epithelial cell types, basal, club, goblet and ciliated cells, at 28-days post-airlift is confirmed by immunocytochemical detection of KRT5, CC10, MUC5B/MUC5AC and acetylated ...

For instance, in COPD airway epithelial cells exposed to cigarette smoke extracts, hypomethylation of a gene promoter increased the expression of the repressor of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR).

Patients with bronchial asthma suffer from attacks of shortness of breath caused by constricted airways. "Anti-inflammatory ...

News Release 11-Apr-2023 New airway cell type holds promise for respiratory diseases An international research team discovers a new cell state in embryonic airway development—overlooked until now.

A rare cell in the lining of lungs is fundamental to the organ-wide response necessary to repair damage from toxins like those in wildfire smoke or respiratory viruses, Stanford Medicine researchers ...

Veena Antony, M.D., (Professor, PACCM) led a study published in Scientific Reports, detailing the effect of low dose cadmium — a highly toxic metal and environmental pollutant found in cigarette smoke ...