Evidence supports the link between air pollution and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, exposure to indoor (IDP) is likely be associated with disease. The poor, refugees, migrant workers who live in feeble conditions are most vulnerable. pandemic has caused many people remain indoors, especially at-risk individuals (e.g., elderly, diabetics, obese, cardiac, chronic lung patients). ...

Gammaherpesviruses (γHV) are implicated in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis in humans and murine models of lung fibrosis, however there is little direct experimental evidence that such viruses induce lung fibrosis in the natural host. The equine γHV EHV 5 is associated with equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis (EMPF), a progressive fibrosing lung disease in its natural host, the horse. ...

Three human lung tumor-associated antigens (TAA's) have been identified in soluble and membrane-solubilized extracts of human squamous cell lung carcinoma with the use of antisera raised in rabbits. The antigens were identified and partially characterized by means of an agarose adsorption technique. These antigens, termed lung TAA's 1,2, and 3, are all soluble in 50% ammonium sulfate, are antig...

Proteoglycans were extracted from bovine lung gas exchange tissue, pleura, and bronchioles with 4.0 M guanidinium chloride at 5 degrees C in the presence of protease inhibitors. Preliminary purification of the proteoglycans was achieved by an initial CsCl isopycnic centrifugation (rho 0 = 1.33) and through precipitation with cetylpyridinium chloride in 0.5 M KCl. Further purification and fracti...

A variety of thoracic surgical procedures, such as lobectomy, pneumonectomy, esophago-gastrectomy, pleural decortication, bullectomy and bronchopulmonary lavage are commonly performed. Customarily they are classified either as absolute or as relative. THE ABSOLUTE INDICATIONS include life-threatening complications, such as massive bleeding, sepsis and pus, where the non diseased contra lateral ...

More echovirus isolants were obtained from clinical specimens with a strain of human embryonic lung fibroblast cells (RU-1) than with primary rhesus monkey kidney cells.