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CD4/CD8 ratio and cytokine levels of the BAL fluid in patients with bronchiectasis caused by sulfur mustard gas inhalation
... likely sequestered in response to chronic bacterial infec- tion (See Table 2 and Table 3). This study showed positive BAL fluid cultures in only 8 patients. Interestingly, our findings suggest that airway ...
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Clarithromycin Decreases IL-6 Concentration in Serum and BAL Fluid in Patients with Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
... The present study has some limitations. It an- alyzed only the four cytokines thought to be the most important in the pathogenesis of COP. They represent only a small part of all the possible in- flammatory mediators ...
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Soluble programmed cell death receptor 1 (sPD 1): a potential biomarker with anti inflammatory properties in human and experimental acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
... [28–30]. BAL fluid from mice with ARDS reduces TNF-α production when sPD-1 is ...mouse BAL to decrease TNF-α level that we have shown here may in fact represent aspects of an endogenous mechanism ...
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Automated and Manual Methods of DNA Extraction for Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae Analyzed by Quantitative Real Time PCR
... ticularly BAL fluid. BAL fluid was used in these studies be- cause it is a common specimen chosen for analysis by clinical microbiology laboratories for the detection of organisms in patients ...
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Detection, Identification, and Distribution of Fungi in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Specimens by Use of Multilocus PCR Coupled with Electrospray Ionization/Mass Spectrometry
... PCR (9, 21, 22). It not only possesses enough sensitivity to detect pathogens directly in clinical specimens (10, 13) but also has pre- cise discriminatory powers to simultaneously differentiate several pathogen species ...
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Detection of a Molecular Biomarker for Zygomycetes by Quantitative PCR Assays of Plasma, Bronchoalveolar Lavage, and Lung Tissue in a Rabbit Model of Experimental Pulmonary Zygomycosis
... or BAL fluid samples obtained from the animal ...and BAL fluid samples were extracted from organisms recovered from infected tissue or lavaged from in- fected ...or BAL fluid ...
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Airway remodeling in asthma
... asthmatic BAL fluid before and after antigen challenge; (b) they are pro- duced in exaggerated quantities by eosinophils and fibroblasts from patients with severe and mild asthma, as well as by those from ...
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Intranasal Vaccination Using Interleukin-12 and Cholera Toxin Subunit B as Adjuvants To Enhance Mucosal and Systemic Immunity to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Glycoproteins
... sera, BAL fluids, and vaginal washes were collected and analyzed for the presence of gp120- and gp140-specific antibodies by ...and BAL fluid, the same dose of gp120 was unable to generate antibody ...
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Cellular Profiles of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Their Prognostic Significance for Non HIV Infected Patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia
... that BAL fluid neutrophilia in non-HIV-infected patients with PCP was associated with severe disease and higher ...in BAL fluid may play a role in predicting clinical ...that BAL ...
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A Novel Cytotoxic Sequence Contributes to Influenza A Viral Protein PB1-F2 Pathogenicity and Predisposition to Secondary Bacterial Infection
... the BAL fluid of mice infected with PR8 (versus the PR8-3 mutant), along with elevation of other inflammatory responses, was accompanied by significant promo- tion of secondary bacterial pneumonia with the ...
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Lung Cytokines and Systemic Inflammation in Patients with COPD
... and BAL fluid samples in an outpatient basis, when subjects were not currently experiencing or being treated for an ...bronchoscopic BAL fluid samples and not only induced sputum samples for ...
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Pathogenesis of the adult respiratory distress syndrome Evidence of oxidant activity in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... Evidence is presented indicating that oxidants are generated in lungs of patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The evidence was derived from observations that alpha-1-PI, recovered in ...
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Interferon gamma is necessary for the expression of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
... A well-described murine model of HP has often been used to study the immune mechanisms that cause HP (15–21). In this model, mice exposed to the actinomycete Saccharopoly- spora rectivirgula (SR) (previously named ...
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Correlation of the lung microbiota with metabolic profiles in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in HIV infection
... (BAL) fluid of otherwise healthy HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected individuals ...in BAL fluid were different between these two groups and showed that pyochelin, a siderophore produced by ...
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Neuraminidase Activity and Resistance of 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus to Antiviral Activity in Bronchoalveolar Fluid
... in BAL fluid sample were precip- itated using a lectin (jacalin) from Artocarpus integrifolia cross-linked with 4% beaded agarose (Sigma-Aldrich) (21) and Pierce protein G-agarose (Thermo Scientific), ...of ...
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Analysis of Culture Dependent versus Culture Independent Techniques for Identification of Bacteria in Clinically Obtained Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
... on BAL fluid microbiota (8), implying minimal contribution to BAL fluid communities from upper respiratory tract ...of BAL fluid spec- imens was performed with instillation of ...
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Evaluation of Unbiased Next Generation Sequencing of RNA (RNA seq) as a Diagnostic Method in Influenza Virus Positive Respiratory Samples
... from BAL fluid, swab, or sputum samples with influenza A (InflA) or influenza B (InflB) (sample 14,097) ...influenza-negative BAL fluid ...
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Proteomics of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Reveals a Lung Oxidative Stress Response in Murine Herpesvirus-68 Infection
... Analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from MHV-68 infection of the mouse lung. 267[r] ...
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TL1A/DR3 axis involvement in the inflammatory cytokine network during pulmonary sarcoidosis
... anaesthesia, BAL was performed as previously described ...The fluid was fil- tered through gauze, and its volume was ...injected fluid recovered was 77.3 ± 7.5 %. Cells recovered from the BAL ...
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Cigarette smoke-induced pulmonary emphysema in scid-mice. Is the acquired immune system required?
... in BAL-fluid using commercially availa- ble ELISA kits (R&D Systems Europe, Abingdon, ...in BAL-fluid were determined by FACS using the Cytometric Bead Array (CBA – Mouse inflammation kit; ...
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