Article
Alveolar macrophages from bronchoalveolar lavage of patients with pulmonary histiocytosis X: determination of phenotypic and functional changes.
Lung - 1 Jan 1995
Uebelhoer M, Bewig B, Sternberg K, Rabe K, Nowak D, Magnussen H, Barth J
Abstract excerpt
In recent years the alveolar macrophage has been found to play a central role in interstitial lung disease. Pulmonary histiocytosis X is characterized by infiltrating fibroblasts, mononuclear cells, and CD-1-positive Langerhans cells. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid displays an increase of CD-...
Topics
- Adult
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
- Case-Control Studies
- Female
- Fibronectins
- Free Radicals
- Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell
- Humans
- Macrophages, Alveolar
- Male
- Middle Aged
