Pathophysiological Correlation between Cigarette Smoking and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Spiro Menounos, Philip M. Hansbro, Ashish D. Diwan, Abhirup Das

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No smoke without fire: the impact of cigarette smoking on the immune control of tuberculosis by Diana H. Quan, Alexander J. Kwong, Philip M. Hansbro, Warwick J. Britton

“…Cigarette smoke (CS) exposure is a key risk factor for both active and latent tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Probiotic <i>Bifidobacterium longum</i> subsp. <i>longum</i> Protects against Cigarette Smoke-Induced Inflammation in Mice by Kurtis F. Budden, Shaan L. Gellatly, Annalicia Vaughan, Nadia Amorim, Jay C. Horvat, Nicole G. Hansbro, David L. A. Wood, Philip Hugenholtz, Paul G. Dennis, Peter A. B. Wark, Philip M. Hansbro

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Attenuation of Cigarette-Smoke-Induced Oxidative Stress, Senescence, and Inflammation by Berberine-Loaded Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles: In Vitro Study in 16HBE and RAW264.7 Cells by Keshav Raj Paudel, Nisha Panth, Bikash Manandhar, Sachin Kumar Singh, Gaurav Gupta, Peter R. Wich, Srinivas Nammi, Ronan MacLoughlin, Jon Adams, Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani, Dinesh Kumar Chellappan, Brian G. Oliver, Philip M. Hansbro, Kamal Dua

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The Complex Association between COPD and COVID-19 by Nikhil T. Awatade, Peter A. B. Wark, Andrew S. L. Chan, SM Abdullah Al Mamun, Nurul Yaqeen Mohd Esa, Kazuto Matsunaga, Chin Kook Rhee, Philip M. Hansbro, Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, on behalf of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) COPD Assembly

“…We also discuss confounding factors such as cigarette smoking, inhaled corticosteroids, and socioeconomic and genetic factors that may influence this association. …”
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Systemic alterations in neutrophils and their precursors in early-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Theodore S. Kapellos, Kevin Baßler, Wataru Fujii, Christina Nalkurthi, Anna C. Schaar, Lorenzo Bonaguro, Tal Pecht, Izabela Galvao, Shobhit Agrawal, Adem Saglam, Erica Dudkin, Amit Frishberg, Elena de Domenico, Arik Horne, Chantal Donovan, Richard Y. Kim, David Gallego-Ortega, Tessa E. Gillett, Meshal Ansari, Jonas Schulte-Schrepping, Nina Offermann, Ignazio Antignano, Burcu Sivri, Wenying Lu, Mathew S. Eapen, Martina van Uelft, Collins Osei-Sarpong, Maarten van den Berge, Hylke C. Donker, Harry J.M. Groen, Sukhwinder S. Sohal, Johanna Klein, Tina Schreiber, Andreas Feißt, Ali Önder Yildirim, Herbert B. Schiller, Martijn C. Nawijn, Matthias Becker, Kristian Händler, Marc Beyer, Melania Capasso, Thomas Ulas, Jan Hasenauer, Carmen Pizarro, Fabian J. Theis, Philip M. Hansbro, Dirk Skowasch, Joachim L. Schultze

“…Assessing neutrophils and their bone marrow precursors in a murine cigarette smoke exposure model identified similar molecular changes in blood neutrophils and precursor populations that also occur in the blood and lung. …”
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TLR7 promotes smoke-induced experimental lung damage through the activity of mast cell tryptase by Gang Liu, Tatt Jhong Haw, Malcolm R. Starkey, Ashleigh M. Philp, Stelios Pavlidis, Christina Nalkurthi, Prema M. Nair, Henry M. Gomez, Irwan Hanish, Alan CY. Hsu, Elinor Hortle, Sophie Pickles, Joselyn Rojas-Quintero, Raul San Jose Estepar, Jacqueline E. Marshall, Richard Y. Kim, Adam M. Collison, Joerg Mattes, Sobia Idrees, Alen Faiz, Nicole G. Hansbro, Ryutaro Fukui, Yusuke Murakami, Hong Sheng Cheng, Nguan Soon Tan, Sanjay H. Chotirmall, Jay C. Horvat, Paul S. Foster, Brian GG. Oliver, Francesca Polverino, Antonio Ieni, Francesco Monaco, Gaetano Caramori, Sukhwinder S. Sohal, Ken R. Bracke, Peter A. Wark, Ian M. Adcock, Kensuke Miyake, Don D. Sin, Philip M. Hansbro

“…Abstract Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) is known for eliciting immunity against single-stranded RNA viruses, and is increased in both human and cigarette smoke (CS)-induced, experimental chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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Expression of targets of the RNA-binding protein AUF-1 in human airway epithelium indicates its role in cellular senescence and inflammation by Ilaria Salvato, Ilaria Salvato, Luca Ricciardi, Luca Ricciardi, Jessica Dal Col, Annunziata Nigro, Giorgio Giurato, Domenico Memoli, Assunta Sellitto, Erwin Pavel Lamparelli, Maria Assunta Crescenzi, Monica Vitale, Alessandro Vatrella, Francesco Nucera, Paola Brun, Federico Caicci, Paola Dama, Thomas Stiff, Leandro Castellano, Sobia Idrees, Matt D. Johansen, Alen Faiz, Peter A. Wark, Philip M. Hansbro, Philip M. Hansbro, Ian M. Adcock, Gaetano Caramori, Cristiana Stellato

“…Decreased AUF-1 expression was described in bronchiolar epithelium of COPD patients versus controls and in vitro cytokine- and cigarette smoke-challenged human airway epithelial cells, prompting the identification of epithelial AUF-1-targeted transcripts and function, and investigation on the mechanism of its loss.ResultsRNA immunoprecipitation-sequencing (RIP-Seq) identified, in the human airway epithelial cell line BEAS-2B, 494 AUF-1-bound mRNAs enriched in their 3’-untranslated regions for a Guanine-Cytosine (GC)-rich binding motif. …”
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