Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8056, USA.
Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2012 May;9(2):57-61. doi: 10.1513/pats.201112-056MS.
This report explains how our studies of asthma and Th2 inflammation led us to investigate the roles of chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) in lung injury and repair and puts forth an overall hypothesis that can explain the roles that these moieties play in biology and a hypothesis regarding the ways that dysregulated CLP expression may contribute to the pathogenesis of a variety of diseases. We test this hypothesis by assessing the contributions of the CLP breast regression protein (BRP)-39 in the pathogenesis of malignant melanoma metastasis to the lung.
本报告解释了我们对哮喘和 Th2 炎症的研究如何引导我们研究几丁质酶样蛋白 (CLP) 在肺损伤和修复中的作用,并提出了一个总体假设,可以解释这些物质在生物学中的作用,以及关于失调的 CLP 表达可能导致多种疾病发病机制的假设。我们通过评估 CLP 乳腺退化蛋白 (BRP)-39 在恶性黑色素瘤转移到肺部的发病机制中的作用来检验这一假设。