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A New Frontier in Immunometabolism. Cholesterol in Lung Health and Disease.

ABSTRACT: The lung has a unique relationship to cholesterol that is shaped by its singular physiology. On the one hand, the lungs receive the full cardiac output and have a predominant dependence on plasma lipoprotein uptake for their cholesterol supply. On the other hand, surfactant lipids, including cholesterol, are continually susceptible to oxidation owing to direct environmental exposure and must be cleared or recycled because of the very narrow biophysical mandates placed upon surfactant lipid composition. Interestingly, increased lipid-laden macrophage "foam cells" have been noted in a wide range of human lung pathologies. This suggests that lipid dysregulation may be a unifying and perhaps contributory event in chronic lung disease pathogenesis. Recent studies have shown that perturbations in intracellular cholesterol trafficking critically modify the immune response of macrophages and other cells. This minireview discusses literature that has begun to demonstrate the importance of regulated cholesterol traffic through the lung to pulmonary immunity, inflammation, and fibrosis. This emerging recognition of coupling between immunity and lipid homeostasis in the lung presents potentially transformative concepts for understanding lung disease and may also offer novel and exciting avenues for therapeutic development.

SUBMITTER: Fessler MB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5711269 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A New Frontier in Immunometabolism. Cholesterol in Lung Health and Disease.

Fessler Michael B MB

Annals of the American Thoracic Society 20171101 Supplement_5

The lung has a unique relationship to cholesterol that is shaped by its singular physiology. On the one hand, the lungs receive the full cardiac output and have a predominant dependence on plasma lipoprotein uptake for their cholesterol supply. On the other hand, surfactant lipids, including cholesterol, are continually susceptible to oxidation owing to direct environmental exposure and must be cleared or recycled because of the very narrow biophysical mandates placed upon surfactant lipid compo ...[more]

PMID: 29161079

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A New Frontier in Immunometabolism. Cholesterol in Lung Health and Disease.

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A New Frontier in Immunometabolism. Cholesterol in Lung Health and Disease.

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