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ArticleRespiratory research2018

Hypoargininemia exacerbates airway hyperresponsiveness in a mouse model of asthma.

Roy H E Cloots, Matthew E Poynter, Els Terwindt, Wouter H Lamers, S Eleonore Köhler

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Article in Respiratory research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. IL-9R/Arg1 pathway promotes polyamine metabolism in human airway macrophages.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2026
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  6. Arginine Therapy for Lung Diseases.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021
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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 2 countries.

Roy H E ClootsDepartment of Anatomy & Embryology and NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Matthew E PoynterDepartment of Medicine, College of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care, University of Vermont, VT, Burlington, USA.
Els TerwindtDepartment of Anatomy & Embryology and NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Wouter H LamersDepartment of Anatomy & Embryology and NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
S Eleonore KöhlerDepartment of Anatomy & Embryology and NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands. leo.koehler@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Maastricht University · NLAcademic Medical Center · NLUniversity of Vermont · US

Funding

VERMONT IMMUNOBIOLOIGY/ INFECTIOUS DISEASES CENTERP20RR021905 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI BUDD, RALPH C · 2006 to 2011
$14.5M
Vermont Immunology/Infectious Diseases CenterP30GM118228 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI BUDD, RALPH C · 2016 to 2021
$6.8M
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR021905NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM118228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAsthma is a chronic respiratory condition, with airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and inflammation as hallmarks. The hypothesis that the substantially increased expression of arginase 1 in activated macrophages limits the availability of L-arginine for nitric oxide synthesis, and thus increases AHR in lungs of mice with experimentally induced allergic asthma was recently refuted by several studies. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that, instead, a low circulating concentration of arginine aggravates AHR in the same murine asthma model. Female FVB F/A2

methodsAdult female F/A2

resultsReduction of circulating L-arginine concentration significantly increased AHR in OVA/OVA-treated mice and, to a lesser extent, even in PBS/OVA-treated mice. The pulmonary inflammatory response in OVA/OVA-treated F/A2

conclusionA reduction of the circulating L-arginine concentration rather than the macrophage-mediated increase of arginine catabolism worsens AHR.

Indexed as

AnimalsArginaseArginineAsthmaBronchial HyperreactivityFemaleLungMiceMice, TransgenicRespiratory HypersensitivityArg1 protein, mouseArginaseArginineArginine availabilityLung functionPulmonary inflammationTransgenes

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PMID29792217
PMCPMC5967058
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