Regulation of lung injury and repair by Toll-like receptors and hyaluronan

D Jiang, J Liang, J Fan, S Yu, S Chen, Y Luo… - Nature medicine, 2005 - nature.com
Mechanisms that regulate inflammation and repair after acute lung injury are incompletely
understood. The extracellular matrix glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan is produced after tissue …

Matrix regulation of lung injury, inflammation, and repair: the role of innate immunity

PW Noble, D Jiang - Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2006 - atsjournals.org
Mechanisms that regulate host defense after noninfectious tissue injury are incompletely
understood. Our laboratory is interested in the role of the extracellular matrix …

Hyaluronan in tissue injury and repair

D Jiang, J Liang, PW Noble - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
A hallmark of tissue injury and repair is the turnover of extracellular matrix components. This
review focuses on the role of the glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan in tissue injury and repair …

[HTML][HTML] The role of Toll-like receptors in non-infectious lung injury

D Jiang, J Liang, Y Li, PW Noble - Cell research, 2006 - nature.com
The role of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in pathogen recognition has been expeditiously
advanced in recent years. However, investigations into the function of TLRs in non-infectious …

Hyaluronan and TLR4 promote surfactant-protein-C-positive alveolar progenitor cell renewal and prevent severe pulmonary fibrosis in mice

J Liang, Y Zhang, T Xie, N Liu, H Chen, Y Geng… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Successful recovery from lung injury requires the repair and regeneration of alveolar
epithelial cells to restore the integrity of gas-exchanging regions within the lung and …

Hyaluronan as an immune regulator in human diseases

D Jiang, J Liang, PW Noble - Physiological reviews, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
Accumulation and turnover of extracellular matrix components are the hallmarks of tissue
injury. Fragmented hyaluronan stimulates the expression of inflammatory genes by a variety …

TLR5 participates in the TLR4 receptor complex and promotes MyD88-dependent signaling in environmental lung injury

S Hussain, CG Johnson, J Sciurba, X Meng, VP Stober… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Lung disease causes significant morbidity and mortality, and is exacerbated by
environmental injury, for example through lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or ozone (O3). Toll-like …

Hyaluronan fragments act as an endogenous danger signal by engaging TLR2

KA Scheibner, MA Lutz, S Boodoo… - The Journal of …, 2006 - journals.aai.org
Upon tissue injury, high mw hyaluronan (HA), a ubiquitously distributed extracellular matrix
component, is broken down into lower mw (LMW) fragments, which in turn activate an innate …

[HTML][HTML] Hyaluronan and its interactions with immune cells in the healthy and inflamed lung

P Johnson, AA Arif, SSM Lee-Sayer… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Hyaluronan is a hygroscopic glycosaminoglycan that contributes to both extracellular and
pericellular matrices. While the production of hyaluronan is essential for mammalian …

Engagement of CD44 by hyaluronan suppresses TLR4 signaling and the septic response to LPS

J Muto, K Yamasaki, KR Taylor, RL Gallo - Molecular immunology, 2009 - Elsevier
Fragments of hyaluronan released after injury bind and activate TLR4 in a complex with
CD44. Here we investigated if the recognition of hyaluronan by CD44 and TLR4 alters …