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The role of bronchiolar epithelial cells in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis has not been clarified. We previously demonstrated DNA damage in murine bronchioles in the early stages of bleomycin-induced p...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:20
Published on: 18 September 2017
Short Report
In this study, a competitive hepcidin ELISA assay was evaluated for its ability to differentiate between iron deficiency anaemia with concurrent inflammation and anaemia of inflammation in elderly patients, us...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:21
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Sepsis is a life-threatening condition and obesity is related to the clinical outcome. The underlying reasons are incompletely understood, but the adipocyte derived hormones leptin and adiponectin may be invol...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:19
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Previous studies have demonstrated that ovalbumin sensitization promotes chronic asthma phenotype in murine asthma model. Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are multipotent cells in vitro that have been show...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:18
Published on: 30 August 2017
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Intracranial infection, one of the complications of traumatic brain injury, is usually associated with inflammation. Several microRNAs (miRNAs), including miR-155, have been reported to be critical modulators ...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:17
Published on: 9 August 2017
Review
Interleukin (IL)-35 is a relatively newly discovered member of IL-12 cytokine family that is unique in that it is a dimer formed by two subunits. The review documents the structure, secretion and signal transd...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:16
Published on: 7 August 2017
Commentary
Wnt5A is a chemokine secreted by inflammatory-activated human macrophages that sustains their inflammatory response in an autocrine manner. High levels of Wnt5A are found in sera of patients with sepsis and se...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:15
Published on: 13 July 2017
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Indeed, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) account for only 15% of all strokes but it is one of the most devastating subtype of stroke associated with behavioral, cognitive and neurological deficits. The primary c...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:14
Published on: 9 June 2017
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a public health issue. As the major complaint in 51% of TBI patients, chronic pain is an important aspect in TBI treatment. Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) is an important compound in Li...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:13
Published on: 8 June 2017
Review
The presence of cytosolic double-stranded DNA molecules can trigger multiple innate immune signalling pathways which converge on the activation of an ER-resident innate immune adaptor named “STimulator of INte...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:11
Published on: 7 June 2017
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The red cell distribution width (RDW) is a widely available, inexpensive, and highly reproducible test that reflects the range of the red cell sizes. Any process that releases reticulocytes in the circulation ...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:12
Published on: 7 June 2017
Short report
Wnt5A is released by activated macrophages and elevated levels have been detected in sepsis patients with severe systemic inflammation. However, the signalling and functional effects of Wnt5A in the vascular e...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:10
Published on: 19 May 2017
Short Report
Obesity-induced inflammation causes skeletal muscle atrophy accompanied by disruption of oxidative metabolism and is implicated in metabolic complications such as insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. We pre...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:9
Published on: 11 May 2017
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Adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein, also known as aP2 or fatty acid-binding protein 4 (FABP4), plays an important role in inflammatory and metabolic responses in adipocytes and macrophages. Recent work has d...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:8
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Ulinastatin or urinary trypsin inhibitor (UTI) has been shown to ameliorate the inflammatory response induced by experimental severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and hence reduce the mortality, however the mechani...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:7
Published on: 20 March 2017
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The dysfunction of articular chondrocytes is a crucial step in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathogenesis while its molecular mechanisms are not fully known. This study was aimed to investigate the expression of a...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:6
Published on: 1 March 2017
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An altered amniotic cytokine profile has been reported in inflammatory pregnancy complications with a leading role for IL-6, a marker of the foetal systemic inflammatory response. Up to this date there is no e...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:5
Published on: 15 February 2017
Short report
Peritoneal macrophages are widely used in immunological studies. The cells can be collected under non-elicited (resident) or elicited (e.g., with Brewer thioglycollate broth injection) conditions, and their ph...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:4
Published on: 10 February 2017
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Statins (HMG CoA reductase inhibitors), in addition to reducing circulating cholesterol and incidence of coronary heart disease, also have pleiotropic, anti-inflammatory effects. Patients with chronic liver di...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:3
Published on: 2 February 2017
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Airway viral infections cause the exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. PD-L1, also known as B7-H1, is an immune-checkpoint molecule that plays a role in an escape mechanism of vir...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:2
Published on: 17 January 2017
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It is well considered that reactive oxygen species (ROS) plays a prominent causative role in the development of allergic rhinitis (AR), and eosinophils cells as important allergic inflammatory cells contribute...
Journal of Inflammation 2017 14:1
Published on: 13 January 2017
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The C825T polymorphism (rs5443) of the Guanine Nucleotide-Binding protein subunit β3 (GNB3) gene has been associated with obesity, essential hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary diseases, and cerebrovascular e...
Journal of Inflammation 2016 13:39
Published on: 9 December 2016
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The innate immune Toll-like receptors (TLRs) 2/4 are important players in chronic low-grade inflammation called metabolic inflammation in obesity and type-2 diabetes (T2D). While TLR2/4 expression changes asso...
Journal of Inflammation 2016 13:38
Published on: 8 December 2016
Review
Ethyl pyruvate (EP) is a simple derivative of pyruvic acid, which is an important endogenous metabolite that can scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS). Treatment with EP is able to ameliorate systemic inflamm...
Journal of Inflammation 2016 13:37
Published on: 3 December 2016
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Macrophages serve as intracellular reservoirs of S. aureus. Recent in vitro studies have confirmed high level resistance by S. aureus to macrophage mediated killing and the intracellular persistence of Staphyloco...
Journal of Inflammation 2016 13:36
Published on: 28 November 2016
