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ArticleInfection and immunity2025

Elevated glucose increases

Emily M Hughes, Meghan J Hirsch, Joshua T Huffines, Stefanie Krick, Megan R Kiedrowski

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Microbial and host innate immune factors affecting the persistence ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Emily M HughesDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3085-902X
Meghan J HirschDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Joshua T HuffinesDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Stefanie KrickDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Megan R KiedrowskiDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4610-182X

Funding

UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS)TL1TR001418 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI SAAG, KENNETH G · 2015 to 2018
$2.1M
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation KIEDRO18F5NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR001418NIH HHS 5TL1TR001418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a healthy lung, the airway epithelium regulates glucose transport to maintain low glucose concentrations in the airway surface liquid (ASL). However, hyperglycemia and chronic lung diseases, such as cystic fibrosis (CF), can result in increased glucose in bronchial aspirates. People with CF are also at increased risk of lung infections caused by bacterial pathogens, including methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

Cystic FibrosisDrug Resistance, BacterialEpithelial CellsGlucoseStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsCell LineHumansHyperglycemiaMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusRespiratory MucosaAnti-Bacterial AgentsGlucoseantibiotic resistancebacterial aggregationbiofilmCF-related diabetescystic fibrosisStaphylococcus aureus

Identifiers

PMID40980927
PMCPMC12519781

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