Submitted on May 18, 2007
Accepted on May 27, 2007
EB 2007 FEATURED TOPIC
ENDOTHELIAL AND EPITHELIAL SIGNALING IN THE LUNG
Shampa Chatterjee1, Simonida Baeter2, and Jahar Bhattacharya2*
1 Institute for Environmental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 Department of Medicine and Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jb39{at}columbia.edu.
Lung inflammatory processes involve considerable convergence of both epithelial and endothelial signaling pathways. Significant progress has been made in understanding the role of factors such as ROS/NO, connexins, TRPV4, TLR-4 and CFTR in regulating lung inflammatory and injury processes.
