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ArticleClinical and translational medicine2018

Comparison of paired human nasal and bronchial airway epithelial cell responses to rhinovirus infection and IL-13 treatment.

Nicole Roberts, Reem Al Mubarak, David Francisco, Monica Kraft, Hong Wei Chu

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Article in Clinical and translational medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nicole RobertsDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Room A639, Denver, CO, 80206, USA.
Reem Al MubarakDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Room A639, Denver, CO, 80206, USA.
David FranciscoDepartment of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Monica KraftDepartment of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Hong Wei ChuDepartment of Medicine, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Room A639, Denver, CO, 80206, USA. chuh@njhealth.org.
National Jewish Health · USUniversity of Arizona · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

SOUTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERP30ES006694 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI DEAN BILLHEIMER · 1994 to 2026
$36.7M
Tollip inhibits IL-33 signaling during airway influenza virus infectionU19AI125357 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI KRAFT, MONICA · 2016 to 2025
$14.7M
IRAK-M in lung defense against rhinovirus infectionR01AI106287 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI CHU, HONG W, LI, LIWU · 2014 to 2018
$2.0M
SPLUNC1 in Severe AsthmaR01HL125128 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CHU, HONG W, DI, YUANPU PETER · 2015 to 2018
$1.9M
Novel function of MUC18: amplification of inflammation in allergic lungsR01HL122321 · NHLBI · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI CHU, HONG W · 2015 to 2018
$1.6M
National Institutes of Health (US) R01 AI106287National Institutes of Health (US) R01 HL122321National Institutes of Health (US) R01 HL125128National Institutes of Health (US) U19AI125357NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL122321NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL125128NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106287NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI125357NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006694
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBecause of its advantage as a minimally invasive procedure, nasal brushings have been increasingly used and proposed as a valuable approach to study lower airway diseases in lieu of bronchial epithelial cells. However, there is limited or conflicting evidence pertaining to whether nasal samples can be surrogates to bronchial samples. The goal of the present study is to test whether nasal epithelial cells have similar antiviral and inflammatory responses to IL-13 treatment and rhinovirus infection, a condition mimicking virally induced asthma exacerbation. Nasal and bronchial airway epithelial cells taken from the same patient were cultured under submerged and air-liquid interface (ALI) culture in the absence or presence of rhinovirus and IL-13 treatment. Inflammatory cytokines IP-10 and eotaxin-3, antiviral gene Mx1 and viral levels were measured.

resultsIn the absence of IL-13 treatment, nasal and bronchial cells showed a similar IP-10 response in both ALI and submerged cultures. Under the ALI culture, short term (e.g., 3 days) IL-13 treatment had a minimal effect on viral and Mx1 levels in both cell types. However, prolonged (e.g., 14 days) IL-13 treatments in both cell types decreased viral load and Mx1 expression. Under the submerged culture, IL-13 treatment in both cell types has minimal effects on viral load, IP-10 and Mx1. IL-13-induced eotaxin-3 production was similar in both types of cells under either submerged or ALI culture, which was not affected by viral infection.

conclusionsOur data suggest that nasal epithelial cells could serve as a surrogate to bronchial epithelial cells in future studies aimed at defining the role of type 2 cytokine IL-13 in regulating pro-inflammatory and antiviral responses.

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EotaxinEpithelial cellsIL-13IP-10Rhinovirus

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PMID29721720
PMCPMC5931947
OpenAlexW2803753995

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