Acknowledgements This work was in part supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30470767), Beijing Natural Sciences Foundation (No 7072063), Education Ministry of China New Century Excellent Talent (NCET 06-0156) and Janssen Research Council China (All grants were to Jin- ming GAO). We are grateful for Dr Hyeryun CHOE's helpful encouragement and for providing the plasmids. We thank Prof Wen- hui LI for kind help in designing the primers. We particularly thank Prof Kian Fan CHUNG for his helpful suggestions, discussion, and excellent English editing of the text.
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Aim: To investigate the role of chemokine receptor CXCR 3 in cigarette smoking (CS)-induced pulmonary damage. Methods: CXCR3 knockout (CXCR3-/-) mice were used. Differences in airspace enlargement, mRNA expressi...
Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30470767), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No 7072063), and the Ministry of Education of China (No NCET 06-0156). We are grateful to Dr Hyeryun CHOE for helpful encouragement and plasmids, Dr Paulette L WRIGHT for critical reading and editing of this manuscript, Drs Wei CUI and Ding-hua LIU for assistance with FACS analysis and Dr Zhi-ying ZHAO for help in performing binding experiments.
Aim: Human CXCR3, a seven-transmembrane segment (7TMS), is predominantly expressed in Th1-mediated responses. Interferon-y-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) is an important ligand for CXCR3. Their interaction is pivot...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30470767), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No 7072063), and the Education Ministry of China Grant (NCET 06-0156).Acknowledgements We are grateful to Prof Craig GERARD (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) who provided the CXCR3 knockout mice, the staff of the Animal Center-PUMC (Beijing, China) for caring for the animals, and particularly, Hui-min ZHAO. We gratefully acknowledge Prof Richard E RUFFIN and Prof Surendral K BANSAL for critically reading this manuscript and for their helpful suggestions. We also would like to express our thanks to Prof Klan Fan CHUNG for his helpful comments and excellent editing of the manuscript.
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Supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(30470767,30470768)
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