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Mature neutrophils have a circulating life span in vivo of about 6-10 hours, after which time they undergo apoptosis [ 27 ] . The present studies demonstrate that adherent vascular neutrophils from the lungs of endotoxin treated animals exhibit decreased apoptosis as evidenced by reduced cytoplasmic DNA and decreased Annexin V binding when compared to cells from untreated animals.
As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, "a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!"
Fibroblasts from the lungs of seven patients (6 males) with IPF (HF-IPF) were harvested: a) from excised lung at the time of lung transplantation; b) during an autopsy performed within 4 hours from death; or c) during open or transbronchial lung biopsies at the time of diagnosis.
In contrast, at the same plasma levels that inhibited the growth of the subcutaneous L44 could not induce any response on the metastasis in the lungs.
In the study reported here we investigated the differential gene-expression profile in the acute phase of allergic reaction to the Ascaris antigen in monkey lungs.