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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Catherine Verhaeghe
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-980 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Verhaeghe Catherine C Remouchamps Caroline C Hennuy Benoît B Vanderplasschen Alain A Chariot Alain A Tabruyn Sebastien P SP Oury Cecile C Bours Vincent V
Biochemical pharmacology 20070324 12
In cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, pulmonary inflammation is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and may precede bacterial colonization. The aim of the present study was to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying intrinsic inflammation in cystic fibrosis airways. Using different cystic fibrosis cell models, we first demonstrated that, beside a high constitutive nuclear factor of kappaB (NF-kappaB) activity, CF cells showed a higher activator protein-1 (AP-1) activity as compared to t ...[more]