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Summary The use of reticulated polyurethane foam as a support material for the immobilization of methanogenic associations and its application to the anaerobic treatment of fine particulate solid wastes was investigated. The colonization of polyurethane support particles in a continuous upflow reactor fed on a mixture of acetate, propionate and butyrate, was both rapid and dense. The combination of rumen microorganisms and colonized support particles in a two-phase digester resulted in an efficient anaerobic decomposition of papermill sludge. 相似文献
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Leikauf G. D.; Leming L. M.; O'Donnell J. R.; Doupnik C. A. 《Journal of applied physiology》1989,66(1):171-178
Bronchial hyperresponsiveness can be produced experimentally after inhalation of numerous nonimmunospecific stimuli; our objective was to determine whether acrolein, a component of cigarette smoke, could increase bronchial reactivity to intravenously administered acetylcholine in guinea pigs. Bronchial responsiveness was assessed twice before and 1, 2, 6, and 24 h after exposures to less than or equal to 0.01 (sham), 0.31, 0.67, 0.94, or 1.26 parts per million for 2 h (5-7 guinea pigs/group). To examine the possible relationships of responsiveness to inflammatory mediator release and cellular infiltration, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed in another 30 guinea pigs before (control) and 0, 1, 2, 6, or 24 h after exposures. Pulmonary resistance was increased immediately after exposure (5 min) and returned to control values within 30-60 min. Increased bronchial responsiveness was evident within 1 h and became maximal 2-4 h after exposure. The acetylcholine dose necessary to double resistance decreased from 104.2 +/- 7.3 to 79.6 +/- 15.9 at 1 h and was 32.5 +/- 7.9 at 2 h and 32.8 +/- 7.6 micrograms.kg-1 at 6 h. Increases in two eicosanoids, thromboxane B2 (from 167 +/- 21 to 314 +/- 77 pg/ml) and prostaglandin F2 alpha (from 98 +/- 20 to 285 +/- 62 pg/ml) occurred immediately after exposure, whereas an influx of neutrophils occurred 24 h later (from 2.2 +/- 1.2 to 11.3 +/- 3.6%). These temporal relationships suggest that neutrophil infiltration may be a sufficient but not a necessary condition for the onset of bronchial hyperresponsiveness and that injury to cells normally present in the lung are responsible for the mediators thought to influence bronchial responsiveness. 相似文献
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McGraw DW Forbes SL Mak JC Witte DP Carrigan PE Leikauf GD Liggett SB 《American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology》2000,279(2):L379-L389
Airway epithelial cells express beta(2)-adrenergic receptors (beta(2)-ARs), but their role in regulating airway responsiveness is unclear. With the Clara cell secretory protein (CCSP) promoter, we targeted expression of beta(2)-ARs to airway epithelium of transgenic (CCSP-beta(2)-AR) mice, thereby mimicking agonist activation of receptors only in these cells. In situ hybridization confirmed that transgene expression was confined to airway epithelium, and autoradiography showed that beta(2)-AR density in CCSP-beta(2)-AR mice was approximately twofold that of nontransgenic (NTG) mice. Airway responsiveness measured by whole body plethysmography showed that the methacholine dose required to increase enhanced pause to 200% of baseline (ED(200)) was greater for CCSP-beta(2)-AR than for NTG mice (345 +/- 34 vs. 157 +/- 14 mg/ml; P < 0.01). CCSP-beta(2)-AR mice were also less responsive to ozone (0.75 ppm for 4 h) because enhanced pause in NTG mice acutely increased to 77% over baseline (P < 0.05) but remained unchanged in the CCSP-beta(2)-AR mice. Although both groups were hyperreactive to methacholine 6 h after ozone exposure, the ED(200) for ozone-exposed CCSP-beta(2)-AR mice was equivalent to that for unexposed NTG mice. These findings show that epithelial cell beta(2)-ARs regulate airway responsiveness in vivo and that the bronchodilating effect of beta-agonists results from activation of receptors on both epithelial and smooth muscle cells. 相似文献
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AB Chang NC Cox J Purcell JM Marchant PJ Lewindon GJ Cleghorn LC Ee GD Withers MK Patrick J Faoagali 《Respiratory research》2005,6(1):1-5
Background and methods
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a recently discovered respiratory virus associated with bronchiolitis, pneumonia, croup and exacerbations of asthma. Since respiratory viruses are frequently detected in patients with acute exacerbations of COPD (AE-COPD) it was our aim to investigate the frequency of hMPV detection in a prospective cohort of hospitalized patients with AE-COPD compared to patients with stable COPD and to smokers without by means of quantitative real-time RT-PCR.Results
We analysed nasal lavage and induced sputum of 130 patients with AE-COPD, 65 patients with stable COPD and 34 smokers without COPD. HMPV was detected in 3/130 (2.3%) AE-COPD patients with a mean of 6.5 × 105 viral copies/ml in nasal lavage and 1.88 × 105 viral copies/ml in induced sputum. It was not found in patients with stable COPD or smokers without COPD.Conclusion
HMPV is only found in a very small number of patients with AE-COPD. However it should be considered as a further possible viral trigger of AE-COPD because asymptomatic carriage is unlikely. 相似文献5.
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Electromechanical effects of endothelin on ferret bronchial and tracheal smooth muscle 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The effects of endothelin (ET) on transmembrane potential and isometric force were studied in ferret bronchial and tracheal smooth muscles. At rest, the muscle cells were electrically and mechanically quiescent. The mean resting potential for the bronchial cells was -70 +/- 1 mV (n = 25 cells/8 ferrets), and that of the tracheal cells was -60 +/- 1 mV (n = 7 cells/2 ferrets). ET depolarized and contracted both types of muscle cells in a concentration-dependent manner. At 1 nM ET, the bronchial muscle cells were significantly depolarized with concomitant force generation. In contrast, greater than 30 nM ET was required for the tracheal muscle cells to respond. The bronchial cells were further depolarized by 10 and 100 nM ET with electrical slow-wave activity present. The calcium channel antagonist verapamil substantially inhibited the contractions produced by 100 nM ET and abolished the slow-wave activity without affecting the base-line depolarization. Pretreatment of the bronchial muscle with 30 microM indomethacin did not affect the ET-induced contraction. These results suggest that ET modulates airway smooth muscle tone by direct activation and/or depolarization-induced activation of sarcolemmal calcium channels. 相似文献
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Isolation,characterization, and long-term culture of fetal bovine tracheal epithelial cells 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Brenda L. Schumann Terence E. Cody Marian L. Miller George D. Leikauf 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Plant》1988,24(3):211-216
Summary Epithelial cells were isolated from fetal bovine trachea by exposing and stripping the mucosal epithelium from the adjacent
connective tissue. The tissue was minced and enzymically dissociated in Ca-Mg-free medium containing dispase and dithiothreitol.
The stripping procedure and selective trypsinization produced epithelial cell cultures free of fibroblasts. Seeded on plastic,
the plating efficiency was 21.5% with a doubling time of 24 h. Dome formation, evidence of occluding junctions and active
ion transport characteristic of epithelial cells, was common. Growth of the cells on glass, collagen, and Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm
(EHS) substrate demonstrated a striking difference in morphology. Cells grown on EHS presented a more distinctly three-dimensional
growth pattern and many more microvilli when compared to cells grown on glass or collagen. The cells retained their epithelioid
characteristics through more than 30 passages as shown by the presence of distinct apical and basolateral membranes, tight
junctions, and positive keratin staining.
This study was supported in part by grants BRSG S07 RR05408-25, Biomedical Research Support Grant Program, Division of Research
Resources, by ES 00159, Center Grant, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, by R23-HL37621, New Investigator
Award, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes, National Institutes of Health, and by the Health Effects Institute, an organization
jointly funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Assistance Agreement X-8120059) and automotive manufactures. The
contents do not necessarily reflect the views of policies of HEI, EPA, or automotive manufacturers. 相似文献
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Pureun-Haneul Lee Byeong-Gon Kim Sun-Hye Lee George D. Leikauf An-Soo Jang 《Proteome science》2018,16(1):2