calpain and Pleural-Diseases

Pleural fibrosis is associated with various inflammatory processes such as tuberculous pleurisy and bacterial empyema. There is currently no ideal therapeutic to attenuate pleural fibrosis. Some pro-fibrogenic mediators induce fibrosis through inflammatory processes, suggesting that blockage of these mediators might prevent pleural fibrosis. The MeT-5A human pleural mesothelial cell line (PMC) was used in this study as an in vitro model of fibrosis; and intra-pleural injection of bleomycin with carbon particles was used as an in vivo mouse model of pleural fibrosis. Calpain knockout mice, calpain inhibitor (calpeptin), and angiotensin (Ang) II type 1 receptor (AT

Topics: Angiotensin II; Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers; Animals; Bleomycin; Calpain; Carbon; Cell Line; Collagen Type I; Dipeptides; Disease Models, Animal; Fibrosis; Humans; Losartan; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Mice, Knockout; Pleural Diseases