The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening lung condition resulting
from direct and indirect insults to the lung. It is characterized by disruption of the endothelial …

Acute lung injury is a complex clinical syndrome involving acute inflammation, microvascular
damage, and increased pulmonary vascular and epithelial permeability, frequently resulting …

The molecular mechanisms of acute lung injury are incompletely understood. MicroRNAs
(miRNAs) are crucial biological regulators that act by suppressing their target genes and are …

We have previously demonstrated that the addition of immune complexes (IC) to stimulated
macrophages could profoundly influence cytokine production. In the present work we sought …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Reduning injection (RDNI) is a patented Traditional
Chinese medicine that contains three Chinese herbal medicines, respectively are the dry …

Cytokine dysregulation is characteristic of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a systemic
autoimmune disease of considerable heterogeneity. Insights gained about the cytokine …

The atherosclerotic process begins when vascular endothelial cells undergo pro-
inflammatory changes such as aberrant activation to dysfunctional phenotypes and …

Previous observations made by our laboratory indicate that Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk)
may play an important role in the pathophysiology of local inflammation in acute lung injury …

Previous observations by our laboratory indicate that the presence of anti–IL-8 autoantibody:
IL-8 immune complexes in lung fluids from patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory …

Cytokines and growth factors play an integral role in the maintenance of immune
homeostasis, the generation of protective immunity, and lung reparative processes …