Acute lung injury (ALI) and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), represent critical conditions characterized by pulmonary inflammation, endothelial injury, and severe ...

Additionally the endothelial layer also facilitates glucose and amino acid transport, coagulation response to injury, thrombosis, angiogenesis and metastatic disease. The regulation of these functions ...

Introduction: The inadvertent intra-ocular administration of benzalkonium chloride-preserved hydroxypropyl methylcellulose during cataract surgery at another hospital in 1999 resulted in toxic corneal ...

The following is a summary of “High-density lipoprotein anti-inflammatory capacity and acute kidney injury after cardiac and ...

Prof Arthur concluded, "The current study shows that exogenous delivery of HpTGM at the time of coronary artery reperfusion dampens the proinflammatory response of coronary endothelial cells and ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with endothelial injury, impaired AVF maturation, and reduced patency, as well as utilization. Because CKD is characterized by multiple pathophysiological ...

umich.edu Objectives Patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are at risk for subclinical endothelial injury, as well as accelerated atherosclerosis. In the related disease systemic lupus ...

It is characterised by alveolar injury and increased pulmonary vascular permeability. Vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF) was identified by its properties to increase permeability and act ...

1 Department of Pathology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK 2 Department of Immunology, Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and ...

Among all confirmed mechanisms, vascular endothelium injury is claimed to an important initial event at the onset of atherosclerosis [6]. Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) and Akt are downstream ...