calpain has been researched along with Pleural-Diseases* in 1 studies
1 other study(ies) available for calpain and Pleural-Diseases
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Inhibition of angiotensin II and calpain attenuates pleural fibrosis.
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 | 2018 |