{"title":"Chapter 2 The First Quarter of ACCA's Second Century.","authors":"Philip A Mackowiak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 Suppl","pages":"10-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11323814/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141988985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gordon Wilson Memorial Lecture.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"75-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316898/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141972562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE BERT AND PEGGY DUPONT LECTURE: THE NEUROBIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF VOCAL LEARNING AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE.","authors":"Erich Jarvis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316877/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FALL 2024.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"iv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316883/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Surfactant Protein A (SP-A) is an innate immune modulator produced by the lung with known protective effects against bacteria and viruses. Its role in asthma, an inflammatory lung disease that affects 10% of the world's population, is not entirely known. In this review, we demonstrate that SP-A confers protection against exposure to interleukin-13, a type 2 cytokine integral to eosinophilic asthma, in a mouse model of SP-A deficiency, a house dust mite model of asthma, and in human bronchial epithelial cells from participants with asthma. We also show that small peptides derived from SP-A, such as the major allele of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1965708, which includes the carbohydrate recognition domain of SP-A2 at position 223, reduce airway hyperresponsiveness, airway eosinophils, and mucus in a mouse model of asthma. These data suggest that SP-A has beneficial effects relevant to asthma and that an SP-A peptide may have a new therapeutic use in asthma.
{"title":"SURFACTANT PROTEIN A: AN INNATE IMMUNE MODULATOR AND THERAPEUTIC IN ASTHMA.","authors":"Monica Kraft, Julie Ledford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surfactant Protein A (SP-A) is an innate immune modulator produced by the lung with known protective effects against bacteria and viruses. Its role in asthma, an inflammatory lung disease that affects 10% of the world's population, is not entirely known. In this review, we demonstrate that SP-A confers protection against exposure to interleukin-13, a type 2 cytokine integral to eosinophilic asthma, in a mouse model of SP-A deficiency, a house dust mite model of asthma, and in human bronchial epithelial cells from participants with asthma. We also show that small peptides derived from SP-A, such as the major allele of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1965708, which includes the carbohydrate recognition domain of SP-A2 at position 223, reduce airway hyperresponsiveness, airway eosinophils, and mucus in a mouse model of asthma. These data suggest that SP-A has beneficial effects relevant to asthma and that an SP-A peptide may have a new therapeutic use in asthma.</p>","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"94-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316857/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ACCA Presidents, Past and Present (and Spouses).","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"xv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316893/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Former Officers 1884 Through 2023.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"viii-xiv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316874/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Recorder's Report.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"lxxxi-lxxxiii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316858/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141972559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE BERT AND PEGGY DUPONT LECTURE.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23186,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association","volume":"134 ","pages":"173-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}