Role of transcription factors in inflammatory lung diseases

I Rahman, W MacNee - Thorax, 1998 - thorax.bmj.com
… by the recruitment to the lungs and activation of immune and inflammatory cells. These
activated … Steroid receptors and co-activator proteins are known to stimulate gene expression by …

Oxidative stress, transcription factors and chromatin remodelling in lung inflammation

I Rahman - Biochemical pharmacology, 2002 - Elsevier
… the activation of the MAP kinase pathway. This leads to an increase in the transcription of
inflammatory mediators, causing lung inflammation. … factors and co-activator proteins is likely to …

Oxidative stress and regulation of glutathione in lung inflammation

I Rahman, W MacNee - European Respiratory Journal, 2000 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… more susceptible to lung inflammation. Knowledge of the … lung inflammation and injury. This
review describes the redox control and involvement of nuclear factor-kB and activator protein

Oxidative stress and redox regulation of lung inflammation in COPD

I Rahman, IM Adcock - European respiratory journal, 2006 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… , ROS has been implicated in initiating inflammatory responses in the lungs through the
activation of transcription factors, such as nuclear factor (NF)-κB and activator protein (AP)-1, and …

Regulation of inflammation by PPARs: a future approach to treat lung inflammatory diseases?

J Becker, C Delayre‐Orthez… - Fundamental & clinical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… suggesting that PPARα and PPARγ activators may be helpful in the treatment of lung … T
cells (NF-AT), CAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) and activator protein 1 (AP-1) [70,91,…

Regulation of experimental lung inflammation

AB Lentsch, PA Ward - Respiration physiology, 2001 - Elsevier
… control the extent of lung inflammation by modulating the activation of NF-κB. … lung inflammation
is self-regulated and that endogenous mediators control the extent of lung inflammatory

The plasminogen activation system: new targets in lung inflammation and remodeling

M Schuliga, G Westall, Y Xia, AG Stewart - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2013 - Elsevier
… of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (… activator is an important mediator of lung inflammation
and remodeling. However, further preclinical characterization of uPA as a drug target for lung

A small molecule inhibitor of redox-regulated NF-κB and activator protein-1 transcription blocks allergic airway inflammation in a mouse asthma model

WR Henderson, EY Chi, JL Teo, C Nguyen… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.aai.org
… /antioxidant imbalance in the lungs of asthmatics may lead to activation of redox-sensitive …
of macrophage inflammatory protein 1α and macrophage inflammatory protein 1β that are …

Procoagulant signalling mechanisms in lung inflammation and fibrosis: novel opportunities for pharmacological intervention?

RC Chambers - British journal of pharmacology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… fibrotic lung disease. This article reviews our current understanding of the mechanisms leading
to the activation of the coagulation cascade in response to lung … by activating protein C. …

Impact of protein acetylation in inflammatory lung diseases

K Ito, CE Charron, IM Adcock - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2007 - Elsevier
… Chronic inflammatory lung diseases are characterized by increased expression of multiple
inflammatory genes following activation by proinflammatory transcription factors, such as …