Browsing by Author "Owen, Caroline"

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    • 8th international conference on management and rehabilitation of chronic respiratory failure: the long summaries – part 1 

      Ambrosino, Nicolino; Casaburi, Richard; Chetta, Alfredo; Clini, Enrico; Donner, Claudio F.; Dreher, Michael; Goldstein, Roger; Jubran, Amal; Nici, Linda; Owen, Caroline A.; Rochester, Carolyn; Tobin, Martin J.; Vagheggini, Guido; Vitacca, Michele; ZuWallack, Richard (BioMed Central, 2015)
      This paper summarizes the Part 1 of the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management and Rehabilitation of Chronic Respiratory Failure, held in Pescara, Italy, on 7 and 8 May, 2015. It summarizes the ...

    • 8th International conference on management and rehabilitation of chronic respiratory failure: the long summaries – part 2 

      Ambrosino, Nicolino; Casaburi, Richard; Chetta, Alfredo; Clini, Enrico; Donner, Claudio F.; Dreher, Michael; Goldstein, Roger; Jubran, Amal; Nici, Linda; Owen, Caroline A.; Rochester, Carolyn; Tobin, Martin J.; Vagheggini, Guido; Vitacca, Michele; ZuWallack, Richard (BioMed Central, 2015)
      This paper summarizes the Part 2 of the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management and Rehabilitation of Chronic Respiratory Failure, held in Pescara, Italy, on 7 and 8 May, 2015. It summarizes the ...

    • 8th International conference on management and rehabilitation of chronic respiratory failure: the long summaries – Part 3 

      Ambrosino, Nicolino; Casaburi, Richard; Chetta, Alfredo; Clini, Enrico; Donner, Claudio F.; Dreher, Michael; Goldstein, Roger; Jubran, Amal; Nici, Linda; Owen, Caroline A.; Rochester, Carolyn; Tobin, Martin J.; Vagheggini, Guido; Vitacca, Michele; ZuWallack, Richard (BioMed Central, 2015)
      This paper summarizes the Part 3 of the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management and Rehabilitation of Chronic Respiratory Failure, held in Pescara, Italy, on 7 and 8 May, 2015. It summarizes the ...

    • Adam8 Limits the Development of Allergic Airway Inflammation in Mice 

      Knolle, M. D.; Nakajima, T.; Hergrueter, A.; Gupta, K.; Polverino, Francesca; Craig, V; Fyfe, S. E.; Zahid, M.; Permaul, Perdita; Cernadas, Manuela; Montano, Giancarlo Vengco; Tesfaigzi, Y.; Sholl, Lynette Marie; Kobzik, Lester; Israel, Elliot; Owen, Caroline Ann (The American Association of Immunologists, 2013)
      To determine whether a disintegrin and a metalloproteinase-8 (Adam8) regulates allergic airway inflammation (AAI) and airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR), we compared AAI and AHR in wild type (WT) versus Adam8−/− mice in ...

    • Adipose-derived stem cells weigh in as novel therapeutics for acute lung injury 

      Gupta, Kushagra; Hergrueter, Anja; Owen, Caroline A (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Acute lung injury is characterized by intense neutrophilic lung inflammation and increased alveolar-capillary barrier permeability leading to severe hypoxemia, and is associated with high mortality despite improvements in ...

    • Comparison of arterial and venous blood biomarker levels in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 

      Kelly, Emer; Owen, Caroline A; Abraham, Amadeus; Knowlton, David L; Celli, Bartolome R; Pinto-Plata, Victor (F1000Research, 2013)
      Purpose: The development of novel biomarkers is an unmet need in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Arterial blood comes directly from the lung and venous blood drains capillary beds of the organ or tissue ...

    • Effects of sex hormones on bronchial reactivity during the menstrual cycle 

      Matteis, Maria; Polverino, Francesca; Spaziano, Giuseppe; Roviezzo, Fiorentina; Santoriello, Carlo; Sullo, Nikol; Bucci, Maria Rosaria; Rossi, Francesco; Polverino, Mario; Owen, Caroline A; D’Agostino, Bruno (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Many asthmatic women complain of symptom exacerbations in particular periods, i.e. during pregnancy and menstrual cycles (perimenstrual asthma: PMA)". The goal of this study was to study the effect of the luteal ...

    • Folliculin regulates cell–cell adhesion, AMPK, and mTORC1 in a cell‐type‐specific manner in lung‐derived cells 

      Khabibullin, Damir; Medvetz, Douglas A.; Pinilla, Miguel; Hariharan, Venkatesh; Li, Chenggang; Hergrueter, Anja; Laucho Contreras, Maria; Zhang, Erik; Parkhitko, Andrey; Yu, Jane J.; Owen, Caroline A.; Huang, Hayden; Baron, Rebecca M.; Henske, Elizabeth P. (Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014)
      Abstract Germline loss‐of‐function BHD mutations cause cystic lung disease and hereditary pneumothorax, yet little is known about the impact of BHD mutations in the lung. Folliculin (FLCN), the product of the Birt–Hogg–Dube ...

    • Haploinsufficiency of Hedgehog interacting protein causes increased emphysema induced by cigarette smoke through network rewiring 

      Lao, Taotao; Glass, Kimberly; Qiu, Weiliang; Polverino, Francesca; Gupta, Kushagra; Morrow, Jarrett; Mancini, John Dominic; Vuong, Linh; Perrella, Mark A; Hersh, Craig P; Owen, Caroline A; Quackenbush, John; Yuan, Guo-Cheng; Silverman, Edwin K; Zhou, Xiaobo (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: The HHIP gene, encoding Hedgehog interacting protein, has been implicated in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and our subsequent studies identified a ...

    • Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and coronary artery disease 

      Cicchitto, Gaetano; Musella, Valentina; Acitorio, Maria; Capuano, Nicola; Fiorenzano, Giuseppe; Owen, Caroline A; Polverino, Mario; Polverino, Francesca (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is defined as a chronic fibrosing interstitial disease of unknown cause, limited to the lungs, and associated with the histopathologic and/or radiologic pattern of usual interstitial ...

    • Increased expression of A Proliferation-inducing Ligand (APRIL) in lung leukocytes and alveolar epithelial cells in COPD patients with non small cell lung cancer: a possible link between COPD and lung cancer? 

      Polverino, Francesca; Laucho-Contreras, Maria; Rojas Quintero, Joselyn; Divo, Miguel; Pinto-Plata, Victor; Sholl, Lynette; de-Torres, Juan P.; Celli, Bartolome R.; Owen, Caroline A. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is characterized by an excessive activation of the adaptive immune system and, in particular, uncontrolled expansion of the B-cell pool. One of the key promoters of ...

    • Mitochondrial iron chelation ameliorates cigarette-smoke induced bronchitis and emphysema in mice 

      Cloonan, Suzanne M.; Glass, Kimberly; Laucho-Contreras, Maria E.; Bhashyam, Abhiram R.; Cervo, Morgan; Pabón, Maria A.; Konrad, Csaba; Polverino, Francesca; Siempos, Ilias I.; Perez, Elizabeth; Mizumura, Kenji; Ghosh, Manik C.; Parameswaran, Harikrishnan; Williams, Niamh C.; Rooney, Kristen T.; Chen, Zhi-Hua; Goldklang, Monica P.; Yuan, Guo-Cheng; Moore, Stephen C.; Demeo, Dawn L.; Rouault, Tracey A.; D’Armiento, Jeanine M.; Schon, Eric A.; Manfredi, Giovanni; Quackenbush, John; Mahmood, Ashfaq; Silverman, Edwin K.; Owen, Caroline A.; Choi, Augustine M.K. (2015)
      Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is linked to both cigarette smoking and genetic determinants. We have previously identified iron-responsive element binding protein 2 (IRP2) as an important COPD susceptibility ...

    • Mononuclear Phagocytes and Airway Epithelial Cells: Novel Sources of Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8) in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 

      Craig, Vanessa J.; Polverino, Francesca; Laucho-Contreras, Maria E.; Shi, Yuanyuan; Liu, Yushi; Osorio, Juan C.; Tesfaigzi, Yohannes; Pinto-Plata, Victor; Gochuico, Bernadette R.; Rosas, Ivan O.; Owen, Caroline A. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Objectives: Matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8) promotes lung fibrotic responses to bleomycin in mice. Although prior studies reported that MMP-8 levels are increased in plasma and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples ...

    • Plasma Cathepsin S and Cathepsin S/Cystatin C Ratios Are Potential Biomarkers for COPD 

      Nakajima, Takahiro; Nakamura, Hidetoshi; Owen, Caroline A.; Yoshida, Shuichi; Tsuduki, Keishi; Chubachi, Shotaro; Shirahata, Toru; Mashimo, Shuko; Nakamura, Miho; Takahashi, Saeko; Minematsu, Naoto; Tateno, Hiroki; Fujishima, Seitaro; Asano, Koichiro; Celli, Bartolome R.; Betsuyaku, Tomoko (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)
      Purpose. This study aimed to examine whether plasma levels of cathepsin S or its inhibitor, cystatin C, may serve as biomarkers for COPD. Patients and Methods. We measured anthropometrics and performed pulmonary function ...

    • Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies for respiratory diseases: Current challenges and perspectives, March 31 – April 1, 2016, Tours, France 

      Desoubeaux, Guillaume; Reichert, Janice M.; Sleeman, Matthew; Reckamp, Karen L.; Ryffel, Bernhard; Adamczewski, Jörg P.; Sweeney, Theresa D.; Vanbever, Rita; Diot, Patrice; Owen, Caroline A.; Page, Clive; Lerondel, Stéphanie; Le Pape, Alain; Heuze-Vourc'h, Nathalie (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      ABSTRACT Monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics have tremendous potential to benefit patients with lung diseases, for which there remains substantial unmet medical need. To capture the current state of mAb research and ...