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Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000 Oct;162(4 Pt 1):1355-60.
Balance of matrix metalloprotease-9 and tissue inhibitor of metalloprotease-1 from alveolar macrophages in cigarette smokers. Regulation by interleukin-10.
Lim S, Roche N, Oliver BG, Mattos W, Barnes PJ, Fan Chung K.
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
An imbalance between proteases and antiproteases may play a role in emphysema, which is characterized by increased degradation of extracellular matrix, and in airway remodeling in chronic bronchitis and asthma, in which there is increased collagen deposition. We assessed the effect of smoking on release of matrix metalloprotease-9 (MMP-9) and of its inhibitor, tissue inhibitor of metalloprotease-1 (TIMP-1), from alveolar macrophages, and determined the effects of proinflammatory (interleukin [IL]-1beta and lipopolysaccharide [LPS]) and antiinflammatory (IL-10) stimuli on the release of MMP-9 and TIMP-1. We performed bronchoalveolar lavage in 11 smokers and 11 nonsmokers, and cultured airway macrophages in the presence of control medium, IL-1beta, and LPS. Airway macrophages from smokers released greater amounts of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 at baseline and in response to IL-1beta and LPS than did those of nonsmokers. Airway macrophages from smokers produced more TNF-alpha and IL-10. IL-10 increased TIMP-1 release without modifying that of MMP-9, leading to a decrease in the MMP-9 to TIMP-1 ratio. Anti-IL-10 antibody had no effect on MMP-9 production induced by LPS. We conclude that the release of proteases and antiproteases by airway macrophages is increased in cigarette smokers, and can be regulated by exogenous IL-10.
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J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2000 Oct;106(4):638-44.
A comparison of exhaled nitric oxide and induced sputum as markers of airway inflammation.
Berlyne GS, Parameswaran K, Kamada D, Efthimiadis A, Hargreave FE.
Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Joseph's Hospital and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
BACKGROUND: Exhaled nitric oxide (ENO) has been proposed as a noninvasive marker of airway inflammation in asthma. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the relationships among ENO, eosinophilic airway inflammation as measured by induced sputum, and physiologic parameters of disease severity (spirometry and methacholine PC(20)). We also examined the effect of corticosteroid treatment and atopy on ENO levels and eosinophil counts in induced sputum. METHODS: Measurements were taken on one day in 22 healthy nonatopic subjects, 28 healthy atopic subjects, 38 asthmatic subjects not taking inhaled steroids, 35 asthmatic subjects taking inhaled steroids, and 8 subjects with eosinophilic bronchitis without asthma. RESULTS: ENO levels showed significant but weak correlations with eosinophil differential counts in the steroid-naive asthmatic and healthy atopic groups (r (s) < 0.05). ENO levels were significantly lower in the asthmatic subjects taking steroids compared with the asthmatic subjects not taking steroids, despite there being no difference in the sputum cell counts, and a tendency to increased airflow limitation. ENO levels and sputum eosinophil counts were equally good at differentiating from steroid-naive asthmatic subjects. ENO levels were consistently raised in subjects with eosinophilic bronchitis without asthma. Atopy had no effect on ENO levels in the healthy subjects. CONCLUSION: We conclude that ENO is likely to have limited utility as a surrogate clinical measurement for either the presence or severity of eosinophilic airway inflammation, except in steroid-naive subjects.
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Arch Fam Med. 2000 Sep-Oct;9(9):933-5.
Improving quality or shifting diagnoses? What happens when antibiotic prescribing is reduced for acute bronchitis?
Hueston WJ, Slott K.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun St, PO Box 250192, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. huestonwusc.edu
BACKGROUND: A quality improvement project in an academic practice demonstrated a reduction in antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis. However, it was unclear whether this represented a reduction in antibiotic use or whether physicians assigned new diagnoses to the same patients to avoid scrutiny and continue to use antibiotic therapy. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether a substantial amount of diagnostic shifting occurred while antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis decreased during a 14-month period (from January 1, 1996, to February 28, 1997). METHODS: All patient diagnoses of acute bronchitis, acute sinusitis, upper respiratory tract infection, and pneumonia were determined for the 14 months of the acute bronchitis intervention. The relative distribution of patients among these 4 diagnostic categories was compared to determine if the percentage of patients with acute bronchitis decreased while those with acute sinusitis and pneumonia increased during the acute bronchitis intervention. RESULTS: The percentage of patients with the diagnosis of acute bronchitis remained unchanged during the 14-month period while antibiotic use for this condition decreased from 66% of cases to less than 21% of cases. Instead of the patients being assigned a different diagnosis such as acute sinusitis so that antibiotic prescribing would not be scrutinized, as we hypothesized, the relative number of diagnoses for acute sinusitis compared with acute bronchitis actually declined during the 14 months. No change was noted in the relative frequency of acute bronchitis cases compared with pneumonia cases. CONCLUSION: During a 14-month period when an intervention was successful at reducing antibiotic use for acute bronchitis, there was no evidence that physicians shifted patients from the diagnosis of acute bronchitis to other diagnoses.
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Lik Sprava. 2000 Jul-Aug;(5):46-9.
[The local immunity status of patients with chronic dust-induced bronchitis]
[Article in Ukrainian]
Kuzhko MM, Kurilo SM, Kovalenchenko VF, Podhaievs'kyi SH, Dzhavad IV.
The ratio of cells in the bronchoalveolar washing was studied as was the functional state of phagocytizing cells, with assessment thereof having been done in the pathogenesis of chronic bronchitis in those workers exposed to quartz-containing dust. The conducted studies showed the endopulmonary cytogram to be characterized by a high degree alveolar neutrophilia (28.2 +/- 1.3) in chronic bronchitis. Disturbances in local immunity were also evidenced by the dysfunction of alveolar macrophages (decline in adhesiveness and absorptivity against the background of apparent activation of intracellular oxygen-dependent metabolism), and by the decrease of the level of secretory immunoglobuline A.
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