Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. suhlig@ukaachen.de
Handbook of experimental pharmacology 2013Acute lung injury is a life-threatening disease that is characterized by pulmonary inflammation, loss of barrier functions, and hypoxemia. Sphingolipids are critically involved in the disease process that they can both expedite and extenuate: They expedite inflammation by promoting chemotaxis (neutral sphingomyelinase), increased endothelial permeability (acid sphingomyelinase, S1P3-receptors), increased epithelial permeability (S1P2- and S1P3-receptors), and delaying neutrophil apoptosis (neutral sphingomyelinase, S1P1-receptors). They extenuate inflammation by attenuating chemotaxis (S1P) and by stabilizing the endothelial and the epithelial barrier (S1P1-receptor). This chapter discusses the multiple roles and therapeutic options that sphingolipids offer with respect to acute lung injury.
Stefan Uhlig, Yang Yang. Sphingolipids in acute lung injury. Handbook of experimental pharmacology. 2013(216):227-46
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