Supported by Unrestricted Research Grants (to Burri E) by the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (Basel, Switzerland) and the Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung (Bern,Switzerland);Bühlmann Laboratories AG (Sch nenbuch, Switzerlanfd) provided the assays to measure ascitic calprotectin
AIM: To evaluate the diagnostic capability of calprotectin in ascitic fluid for detecting a polymorphonuclear (PMN) cell count > 250/μL ascites. METHODS: In this prospective observational study, a total of 130 ascite...
Objective: To investigate the effects of CD11/CD18 on the endothelial cell (EC)damages induced by polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN )from patients in the early stage postburn. Metbods: PMNs from 10 patients in the fi...
The monocellular adhesive ability of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN)to vascular endothelial cells (VEC) was observed with micromanipulation technique when the cells were treated with endotoxin, Anti-CD18 monoclona...
supported by National Science Foundation of China(60478048,60178003 and 69778003);the Opening Project of MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510631,China.
Photobiomodulation(PBM)has been reported to have effects on respiratory burst of polymorphonuclear neutrophils(PMNs),but little focus was on the individual differences of human PMNs.The latter was investigated in this...
Supported by the grant from Medical University of Gdansk,Poland
AIM: To investigate the influence of neutrophil adhesion molecule blockade with rnonoclonal antibody (MoAb CD11b) and E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administration on experimental acute pancreatitis (AP). MET...
Supported by Military Medical and Sanitation ResearchFund (01Z074)
Objective: To explore the role of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) activation in lung injury following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Methods: Twenty four cases of patients with rheumatic heart disease were en...
Aim: To investigate age-related inflammatory events in the male genital tract. Methods: In a total of 4 265 randomly collected patients attending the andrological outpatient clinic of the Center for Dermatology and ...
This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30270586)
A complex network of regulatory neuropeptides controls airway inflammation reaction, in which airway epithelial cells adhering to and activating leukocytes is a critical step. To study the effect of intrapulmonary reg...