abstract there are various narrative books on imam ali’s accounts about women. however, in some of these accounts, women character and identity are undermined and blamed. some of these accounts in nahjolbalgheh and elsewhere reflect women as intellectually deformed and incomplete, mean, unfaithful, and vulnerable to sins, etc. all these have led to multiple disagreements among scholars and comm...

Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) are severe respiratory conditions that remain as significant public health concerns, with ARDS mortality as high at 30-40% [1-4]. ALI/ARDS is primarily caused by pneumonia, it is also caused by a variety of other clinical disorders including pulmonary or non-pulmonary sepsis, major trauma, inhalation injury such as aspirat...

Acute lung injury (ALI), a serious respiratory distress has been associated with considerable human morbidity and mortality. Taurine, a physiological semi-essential amino acid has been shown to be tissue-protective in several models of oxidant-induced injury. Therefore, the current study was designed to explore protective effects of the taurine in ALI mice models. The possible tissue protective...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) treatment suppresses the severity of acute lung injury (ALI). The effects of ACE2 in ALI have been shown to not only result from its antagonizing hydrolyzing angiotensin II (AngII), which is responsible for reduction in the vascular tension and pulmonary accumulation of inflammatory cells, but also result from a role of ACE2 in suppressing ...

The air-liquid interface (ALI) is a common microenvironment of the skin, but it is unknown whether the ALI affects melanoma cell behaviors. Using a collagen gel invasion assay, immunohistochemistry, and Western blots, here we show that melanoma cell proliferation in cultures with an ALI is higher than melanoma cell proliferation in submerged cultures. Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) uptake, an indicat...

Acute lung injury (ALI) and its severe form, known as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), are caused by direct pulmonary insults and indirect systemic inflammatory responses that result from conditions such as sepsis, trauma, and major surgery. The reciprocal influences between pulmonary and systemic inflammation augments the inflammatory process in the lung and promotes the development...

To assess the importance of endothelial intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in microvascular leukocyte kinetics in diseased lungs, we investigated the transitional changes in ICAM-1 expression, vascular diameter, and leukocyte behavior in rat pulmonary microcirculation during the development of acute lung injury (ALI) and chronic fibrosis (FIB) evoked by bleomycin (BLM). Observations wer...

Characterized by its acute onset, critical condition, poor prognosis, and high mortality rate, severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) can cause multiple organ failure at its early stage, particularly acute lung injury (ALI). The pathogenesis of ALI is diffuse alveolar damage, including an increase in pulmonary microvascular permeability, a decrease in compliance, and invasion of many inflammatory cell...

Acute lung injury (ALI) and the acute respiratory distress syndrome are complex syndromes because both inflammatory and coagulation cascades cause lung injury. Transport of salt and water, repair and remodeling of the lung, apoptosis, and necrosis are additional important mechanisms of injury. Alveolar edema is cleared by active transport of salt and water from the alveoli into the lung interst...

A nimal models of acute lung injury (ALI) have contributed significantly to our understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of the clinical syndrome of ALI and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [1]. Investigators have used a wide variety of smalland largeanimal models in order to understand the mechanisms of injury to both the lung endothelial and epithelial barriers, as well...