In vitro modelling of bacterial pneumonia: a comparative analysis of widely applied complex cell culture models

L Mahieu, L Van Moll, L De Vooght… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial pneumonia greatly contributes to the disease burden and mortality of lower
respiratory tract infections among all age groups and risk profiles. Therefore, laboratory …

Evaluating bacterial pathogenesis using a model of human airway organoids infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

M Tang, S Liao, J Qu, Y Liu, S Han, Z Cai… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the leading invasive agents of human pulmonary
infection, especially in patients with compromised immunity. Prior studies have used various …

Human airway basal cells undergo reversible squamous differentiation and reshape innate immunity

Y Zhang, KE Black, TKN Phung… - American journal of …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
Histological and lineage immunofluorescence examination revealed that healthy conducting
airways of humans and animals harbor sporadic poorly differentiated epithelial patches …

[HTML][HTML] Liensinine alleviates LPS-induced acute lung injury by blocking autophagic flux via PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway

C Wang, K Zou, Y Diao, C Zhou, J Zhou, Y Yang… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Acute lung injury (ALI) is a major pathological problem characterized by severe inflammatory
reactions and is a critical disease with high clinical morbidity and mortality. Liensinine, a …

[HTML][HTML] Increased epithelial mTORC1 activity in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps

GX Huang, NR Hallen, M Lee, K Zheng, X Wang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The airway epithelium plays a central role in the pathogenesis of chronic
respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps …

[HTML][HTML] Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 1 causes impaired anti-microbial immunity and inflammation due to dysregulated immunometabolism

A Cavounidis, S Pandey, M Capitani, M Friedrich… - Mucosal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) types 1 and 4 are caused by defective vesicle
trafficking. The mechanism for Crohn's disease-like inflammation, lung fibrosis, and …

WWOX activates autophagy to alleviate lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury by regulating mTOR

C Wang, Y Yang, C Zhou, X Mei, J Liu, K Luo… - International …, 2023 - Elsevier
Acute lung injury (ALI) is characterized by acute systemic inflammatory responses that may
lead to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The clinical course of ALI/ARDS …

[HTML][HTML] The Fusion Protein rFlaA:Betv1 Modulates DC Responses by a p38-MAPK and COX2-Dependent Secretion of PGE2 from Epithelial Cells

YJ Lin, A Flaczyk, S Wolfheimer, A Goretzki, A Jamin… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Developing new adjuvants/vaccines and better understanding their mode-of-action is an
important task. To specifically improve birch pollen allergy treatment, we designed a fusion …

[HTML][HTML] Bronchial epithelial DNA methyltransferase 3b dampens pulmonary immune responses during Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

W Qin, X Brands, C Van't Veer, A F. de Vos… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt) 3b mediates de novo DNA methylation and modulation of
Dnmt3b in respiratory epithelial cells has been shown to affect the expression of multiple …

Inflammatory tissue priming: novel insights and therapeutic opportunities for inflammatory rheumatic diseases

MH Hoffmann, H Kirchner, G Krönke… - Annals of the …, 2024 - ard.bmj.com
Due to optimised treatment strategies and the availability of new therapies during the last
decades, formerly devastating chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or …