bronchitis/phosphatase

The dynamics of acid phosphatase and granulocytic elastase activities in bronchoalveolar washings of 40 patients with chronic catarrhal bronchitis was studied. In case of effective cure, the activities of these enzymes were increased shortly on the 10-13 days from beginning of the cure. In order to

Induction of pro-inflammatory response is a crucial cellular process that detects and controls the invading viruses at early stages of the infection. Along with other innate immunity, this nonspecific response would either clear the invading viruses or allow the adaptive immune system to establish

The measurement of acid and alkaline phosphatase and cathepsin activities in bronchial aspirates obtained through bronchoscopy from a series of 75 patients suggests a procedure that may have value as a routine diagnostic examination. Using this approach, seven patients with neoplasms in the lung

The replicase gene of the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) encodes 15 non-structural proteins (nsps). Nsp 3 is a multi-functional protein containing a conserved ADP-ribose-1″-phosphatase (ADRP) domain. The crystal structures of the domain from two strains of IBV, M41 (virulent) and

Sixty-two patients with bronchopneumonia or bronchitis were treated with cefaclor. In 42 patients (= 68%), the therapy was clinically successful. Of the patients who did not respond to therapy, cefaclor-resistant bacteria were found in the sputum culture of seven. Of the remaining 13 patients, ten

In four series of experiments human peripheral blood neutrophils were found capable of synthetizing the active forms of such enzymes as myeloperoxidase and acid phosphatase after stimulation with opsonized zymosan, and the optimum conditions for testing the synthetizing activity of neutrophils were

The aim - to determine the bone metabolism status and bone mineral density (BMD) in children with recurrent bronchitis (RB). 120 children aged 6 to 10 years were examined. Formed 2 groups: 1st group - children with RB (n=60); 2nd group - children occasionally suffering of upper respiratory tract

A study was made of the level, viability and functional activity of alveolar macrophages (AM) in lavage of 86 patients with chronic bronchitis (26 with nonobstructive and 60 with obstructive bronchitis). A decrease in AM viability by 11-25%, phagocytic activity 1.6-4.6-fold, the NBT-test

Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) encodes 15 nonstructural proteins (nsps) which play crucial roles in RNA transcription and genome replication. One of them, nsp3, contains an ADRP (adenosine diphosphate-ribose-1'-phosphatase) domain which was revealed in recent studies to have

Morphological investigations (light microscopy, enzyme histochemistry, immunopathology) were carried out in cases with asthma bronchiale and chronic bronchitis. According to the histological picture no additional parameters were found with enzyme histochemical and immunopathological methods to

It has been shown that common clinical and paraclinical methods of diagnosis of recurring bronchitis in children fail to detect subclinical activity of the inflammatory process in the lungs, which fact poses rather difficult problem of treatment and rehabilitation in such pediatric patient

The course of bronchitis with clinical manifestations of allergy is characterized by certain cytochemical features which (as compared with bronchitis without allergy) show an increase of deoxyribonucleic acid, increased permeability of the intracellular membranes of polynuclear leucocytes and

The protease-antiprotease balance and concentration of immunoglobulin was evaluated in some respiratory tract diseases. Analysis was carried out on 24 patients with atopic bronchial asthma, 21 with chronic bronchitis, 27 with bronchiectasis and 18 healthy smokers volunteers. In examination of BAL