Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a multimeric collectin that is involved in innate immune
defense and expressed in pulmonary, as well as non-pulmonary, epithelia. SP-D exerts …

Defensins and LL-37 play key roles in maintaining mucosal barriers against invasive
infection and initiating immune responses after infection or injury to mucosal surfaces …

Acute and chronic inflammatory responses in the lung are associated with the accumulation
of large quantities of immune and structural cells undergoing apoptosis, which need to be …

Surfactant protein (SP)-D is a lung-derived protein that has been proposed as a biomarker
for inflammatory lung disease. Serum SP-D was evaluated as a biomarker for components of …

Increasing evidence indicates that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and
probably asthma are associated with low-grade systemic inflammatory changes. In patients …

Influenza viruses cause seasonal epidemics and sporadic pandemics in humans. The
virus's ability to change its antigenic nature through mutation and recombination, and the …

We have reported that the α-defensins human neutrophil peptides (HNP)-1 and HNP-2
neutralize and aggregate influenza A virus (IAV) and promote uptake of IAV by neutrophils …

The acute inflammatory airway response is characterized by a time-dependent onset
followed by active resolution. Emerging evidence suggests that epithelial cells of the …

Background Pulmonary surfactant protein D (SP-D) is considered as a candidate biomarker
for the functional integrity of the lung and for disease progression, which can be detected in …

Psychosocial stress alters susceptibility to infectious and systemic illnesses and may
enhance airway inflammation in asthma by modulating immune cell function through neural …