• Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
HU Jia, Email: humanjia@msn.com
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is the most common cause of acute respiratory failure. Extensive researches have been conducted for the pathophysiology of this disease, but the mortality rate remains high. Previous studies have found that catecholamines play an important role in acute lung injury, and newly discover prompted that upregulation of phagocyte-derived catecholamines augmented the acute inflammatory response in acute lung injury which provides a new way of thinking. In the current review, we describe the mechanism of the phagocyte-derived catecholamines augmenting the acute lung injury.

Citation: QIANHong, HUJia. Phagocyte-derived catecholamines augmenting the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017, 24(1): 75-79. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.201601004 Copy

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