[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary surfactant in adult ARDS: current perspectives and future directions

A Dushianthan, MPW Grocott, GS Murugan… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a major cause of hypoxemic respiratory
failure in adults, leading to the requirement for mechanical ventilation and poorer outcomes …

Potential long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the pulmonary vasculature: Multilayered cross-talks in the setting of coinfections and comorbidities

R Kumar, Ö Aktay-Cetin, V Craddock… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its sublineages pose a new challenge to healthcare …

HIF-1α induces glycolytic reprograming in tissue-resident alveolar macrophages to promote cell survival during acute lung injury

PS Woods, LM Kimmig, KA Sun, AY Meliton… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cellular metabolism is a critical regulator of macrophage effector function. Tissue-resident
alveolar macrophages (TR-AMs) inhabit a unique niche marked by high oxygen and low …

Human surfactant protein A inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and alleviates lung injury in a mouse infection model

IB Jacob, A Gemmiti, W **ong, E Reynolds… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects human angiotensin-converting
enzyme 2 (hACE2)-expressing lung epithelial cells through its spike (S) protein. The S …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular pathogenesis of fibrosis, thrombosis and surfactant dysfunction in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

A Krygier, D Szmajda-Krygier, R Świechowski… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global scope and scale of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led to huge amounts of important
data from clinical observations and experimental analyses being collected, in particular …

Common data models to streamline metabolomics processing and annotation, and implementation in a Python pipeline

JM Mitchell, Y Chi, M Thapa, Z Pang… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
To standardize metabolomics data analysis and facilitate future computational
developments, it is essential to have a set of well-defined templates for common data …

Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in postmortem lung, kidney, and liver samples, revealing cellular targets involved in COVID-19 pathogenesis

V Falcón-Cama, T Montero-González… - Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
There is an urgent need to understand severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)-host interactions involved in virus spread and pathogenesis, which might …

Novel opportunities from bioimaging to understand the trafficking and maturation of intracellular pulmonary surfactant and its role in lung diseases

MJ Garcia, L Amarelle, L Malacrida, A Briva - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pulmonary surfactant (PS), a complex mixture of lipids and proteins, is essential for
maintaining proper lung function. It reduces surface tension in the alveoli, preventing …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with Human Target Cells—A Metabolic View

W Eisenreich, J Leberfing, T Rudel… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites, and they exploit the cellular pathways and
resources of their respective host cells to survive and successfully multiply. The strategies of …

S2 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces domain fusion in natural pulmonary surfactant monolayers

X Xu, G Li, B Sun, YY Zuo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pulmonary surfactant has been attempted as a supportive therapy to treat COVID-19.
Although it is mechanistically accepted that the fusion peptide in the S2 subunit of the S …