bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cells
Use of nested PCR for the detection of trichomonads in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... Trichomonads are a type of parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus that are found in the digestive and repro- ductive systems of man and animals. They frequently colonize the human lungs, but this condition is ...
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Construction of asthma related competing endogenous RNA network revealed novel long non-coding RNAs and potential new drugs
... muscle cells; ATRA: All-trans-retinoic acid; BALF: Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; BEC: Bronchial epithelial cells; BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool; BP: Biological process; CC: ...
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Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytokine profiles in neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy and follicular bronchiolitis
... Treatment with glucocorticoids has not been effective [4]. NEHI often presents with a characteristic appearance on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). The pattern consists of ground glass opacities (GGOs) most ...
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Reconstitution of CD4 T Cells in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid after Initiation of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
... There are several confounding issues that require further study and analysis. First, half of our volunteers were smokers at the time of enrollment, which may decrease the breadth of local T-cell responses. Second, Ki67 ⫹ ...
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Endotoxin markers in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients with interstitial lung diseases
... Neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes are typic- ally the most significant inflammatory cells found in the airways of patients with COPD, while eosinophils may play a role in triggering inflammation in early ...
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Accuracy and Precision of Quantitative Calibrated Loops in Transfer of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
... BAL fluid culture, calibrated loops (including disposable ones) are re- peatedly used for inoculation of several enriched and selective agar plates, and for this reason we were interested in preci- sion as a test ...
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Exosomal microRNA predicts and protects against severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely premature infants
... Similarly, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from hyperoxia-exposed mice (an animal model of BPD) and supernatants from hyperoxia-exposed human bronchial epithelial cells (in vitro model of BPD) ...
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Suppression of lung inflammation in an LPS induced acute lung injury model by the fruit hull of Gleditsia sinensis
... inflammatory cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, analyzing lung histology, and performing semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis of lung ...inflammatory cells to the lungs of WT mice, FGS ...
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Clearance of Virulent but Not Avirulent Rhodococcus equi from the Lungs of Adult Horses Is Associated with Intracytoplasmic Gamma Interferon Production by CD4+ and CD8+ T Lymphocytes
... equine bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) cells, clearance of the virulent strain was shown to be associated with increased numbers of pulmonary CD4 ⴙ and CD8 ⴙ T lymphocytes ...
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Original Article Comparison of fresh bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples with frozen bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples of microbial community measures based on metagenomic data
... Abstract: Background: DNA from the host, and extraction biases can significantly interfere with microbiota assess- ment and increase the cost of high throughput sequencing. This study aimed to find a better method to ...
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Monitoring inflammation and airway remodeling by fluorescence molecular tomography in a chronic asthma model
... inflammatory cells in BALFs, while MMP activity better correlated with remodeling pro- cesses such as collagen ...post-mortem bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid analyses, cells counts, ...
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Increased levels of Treg cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and induced sputum of patients with active pulmonary sarcoidosis
... T cells of patients with active ...T cells also demonstrated a decreased frequency of FoxP3+ cells in the BALF and blood of sarcoidosis patients and a reduced intensity of FoxP3 expression in BALF ...
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Pulmonary persistence of Haemophilus somnus in the presence of specific antibody
... soilnnus pneumonia by quantitating bacteria, inflammatory cells, and the isotypic antibody responses in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and serum.. Additionally, resistance of convalescent [r] ...
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Original Article Ginsenoside Rg1 alleviates pulmonary inflammation caused by cigarette smoke-induced COPD
... (total cells, macrophages and neutrophils) in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of the CS-exposed (CSE) mice group were remarkably increased compared with air-exposed mice, and these ...
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Cytotoxic lymphocytes in COPD airways: increased NK cells associated with disease, iNKT and NKT-like cells with current smoking
... position. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was performed by infusing three aliquots of 60 ml of sterile sodium chloride ...the fluid was gently sucked back after each infusion and pooled into a tube ...
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Impairment of tissue repair in pneumonia due to β cell deficiency: role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in alveolar macrophages
... apoptotic cells (efferocytosis), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) production in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), and lung histology in the resolution phase following acute lung injury in ...
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Inflammatory changes in the airways of mice caused by cigarette smoke exposure are only partially reversed after smoking cessation
... CD8+ cells, in lung parenchyma and airways ...inflammatory cells to the lung is regulated by the release of different mediators, including proteases, cytokines and chemokines secreted by a vari- ety of ...
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A HuR/TGF-β1 feedback circuit regulates airway remodeling in airway smooth muscle cells
... ASM cells, which gives us confidence that a HuR/TGF-β1 may exist to modulate airway remod- ...inflammatory cells around the bronchiole compared with PBS-induced ...
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Indicators for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis positivity detected with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
... Bronchoscopy technique, specimen processing and IGRA All patients underwent bronchoscopy with BALF collec- tion. Patients were pre-medicated with 0.5 mg atropine and then sedated with midazolam. Bronchial washing of the ...
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Mesenchymal stromal cells: a novel therapy for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
... in vivo studies have demonstrated the regenerative potential of MSCs, which is reflected by their ability to induce airway epithe- lial and endothelial repair, and restore lung tissue architecture in emphysematous lungs ...
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