Annals ofPulmonary Medicine

Volume: 2 - Number: 10 - July 15, 2002

Outstanding

Structural determinants of antiproliferative activity of heparin on pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells

Adoptive transfer of acute lung injury

Hypercapnia induces injury to alveolar epithelial cells via a nitric oxide-dependent pathway

Stretching the lung and programmed cell death

Articles

Complement-mediated host defense in the lung

Synergistic and additive killing by antimicrobial factors found in human airway surface liquid

Characterization of rabbit SP-B promoter region responsive to downregulation by tumor necrosis factor-alpha

Store-operated calcium entry and increased endothelial cell permeability

Hypoxia modifies the effect of PDGF on glycosaminoglycan synthesis by primary human lung cells

Surfactant phospholipid catabolic rate is pool size dependent in mice

Angiotensin IV-mediated pulmonary artery vasorelaxation is due to endothelial intracellular calcium release

Chronic intrauterine pulmonary hypertension decreases calcium-sensitive potassium channel mRNA expression

Hoxa-5 in mouse developing lung: cell-specific expression and retinoic acid regulation

Free radical-mediated transgene inactivation of macrophages by endotoxin

L-type Ca2+ channels, resting [Ca2+]i, and ET-1-induced responses in chronically hypoxic pulmonary myocytes

SB 239063, a p38 MAPK inhibitor, reduces neutrophilia, inflammatory cytokines, MMP-9, and fibrosis in lung

Inhibition of KCa channels restores blunted hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in rats with cirrhosis

Selectivity properties of a Na-dependent amino acid cotransport system in adult alveolar epithelial cells

Vitronectin adsorption to chrysotile asbestos increases fiber phagocytosis and toxicity for mesothelial cells

Phagocytosis of particulate air pollutants by human alveolar macrophages stimulates the bone marrow

p38 MAP kinase regulates IL-1beta responses in cultured airway smooth muscle cells

Anti-inflammatory effects of triptolide in human bronchial epithelial cells

Fas ligand expression coincides with alveolar cell apoptosis in late-gestation fetal lung development

Secretion of extracellular superoxide dismutase in neonatal lungs

Adoptive transfer of acute lung injury

Hypercapnia induces injury to alveolar epithelial cells via a nitric oxide-dependent pathway

Perspectives and Editorial

Stretching the lung and programmed cell death

Reviews and Trials

Structural determinants of antiproliferative activity of heparin on pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells

Reactive oxygen species in cell signaling

Heme oxygenase: colors of defense against cellular stress