Because little is known about lymphocyte responses in the nasal mucosa, lymphocyte accumulation in the nasal mucosa, nasal-associated lymphoid tissue (NALT), and cervical lymph nodes (CLN) were determined after primary and heterosubtypic intranasal influenza challenge of mice. T cell accumulation peaked in the nasal mucosa on day 7, but peaked slightly earlier in the CLN (day 5) and later (day ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Hydrogen sulfide (H(2) S), the third endogenous gaseous transmitter, may be a crucial mediator in airway hyper-responsiveness and airway inflammation, including asthma. To elucidate the role of H(2) S in allergic rhinitis, the present study was undertaken to determine the level of expression of H(2) S in healthy nasal mucosa and mild and moderate/severe persistent allergic...

PURPOSE Allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma share many characteristics, but structural changes are observed far less often in AR. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) constitute a family of Zn-dependent endopeptidases that can decompose the extracellular matrix and basement membrane, and regulate cell infiltration. We analyzed the expression of MMPs and their inhibitors, tissue inhibitors of metallop...

Aims. To measure blood and tissue concentrations of the H1-receptor antagonist, bepotastine besilate (BB). Methods. Participants included 14 men and six women, whose age ranged from 13 to 76 years, with chronic rhinosinusitis, who underwent endoscopic sinus surgery at our university hospital. Among them, 10 participants had allergic rhinitis (AR) (Group I), and others did not have AR (Group II)...

Prion infection and pathogenesis are dependent on the agent crossing an epithelial barrier to gain access to the recipient nervous system. Several routes of infection have been identified, but the mechanism(s) and timing of in vivo prion transport across an epithelium have not been determined. The hamster model of nasal cavity infection was used to determine the temporal and spatial parameters ...

A 55-year-old woman was referred to our outpatient clinic because of bilateral papular lesions on her nose from 2 years ego. In clinical examination, we found three symmetrical dome-shaped, skin-colored, asymptomatic papules on both nasal alas. The lesions made the patient's nose to seem larger with eroded edges (figures 1, 2). Examination of nasal mucosa was normal. General physical examinatio...

Whole-body autoradiography of 3H-labeled aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in adult C57BL mice pretreated with the glutathione (GSH)-depleting agent phorone showed accumulation of tissue-bound radioactivity in the nasal olfactory and respiratory mucosa, the mucosa of the nasopharyngeal duct, and the tracheal and esophageal mucosa, which was not seen in unpretreated adult mice. The altered distribution pictur...

A novel sub-suptum mucusa approach was used to investigate the surgical method via an endonasal sub-septum-mucosa approach to pituitary adenoma under endoscopy. In this work, we aim to ensure the quality of operation and to reduce the operation trauma and complications. By endoscopy, the nasal mucosa was incised in the nasal septum, and all mucosal flaps were retained, a sub-septum-mucosa surgi...

Nasal polyps are benign oedematous outgrowths of respiratory mucosa which frequently present to the clinician as a cause of nasal obstruction. Though nasal and sinus polyps are not true neoplasms, long -standing inflammation can lead to metaplastic changes on the surface of the mucosa, and occasionally even to carcinoma. We report a case who presented with typical findings of nasal polyposis, b...