1. Doyle RL, Szaflarski N, Modin GW, Wiener-Kronish JP, Matthay MA. Identification of patients with acute lung injury: predictors of mortality. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995. 152:1818–1824.
2. Jules-Elysee K, White DA. Bleomycin-induced pulm onary toxicity. Clin Chest Med. 1990. 11:1–20.
3. Piguet PF, Vesin C, Grau GE, Thompson RC. Inte rleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) prevents or cures pulmonary fibrosis elicited in mice by bleomycin or silica. Cytokine. 1993. 5:57–61.
4. Smith RE, Strieter RM, Zhang K, Phan SH, Standiford TJ, Lukacs NW, et al. A role for C-C chemokines in fibrotic lung disease. J Leukoc Biol. 1995. 57:782–787.
5. Piguet PF, Collart MA, Grau GE, Kapanci Y, Vassalli P. Tumor necrosis factor/cachectin plays a key role in bleomycin-induced pneumopathy and fibrosis. J Exp Med. 1989. 170:655–663.
6. King LS, Nielsen S, Agre P. Aquaporin-1 water channel protein in lung: ontogeny, steroid-induced expression, and distribution in rat. J Clin Invest. 1996. 97:2183–2191.
7. Nielsen S, King LS, Christensen BM, Arge P. Aquaporins in complex tissues: II. cellular and subcellular distribution in respiratory tract and glands of rat. Am J Physiol. 1997. 273:C1549–C1561.
8. Towne JE, Harrod KS, Krane CM, Menon AG. Decreased expression of aquaporin (AQP) 1 and AQP5 in mouse lung after acute viral infection. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2000. 22:34–44.
9. Smith PK, Krohn RI, Hermanson GT, Mallia AK, Gartner FH, Provenzano MD, et al. Measurement of protein using bicinchninic acid. Anal Biochem. 1985. 150:76–85.
10. Dickason RR, Huston MM, Huston DP. Enhanced detection of human interluekin-5 in biological fluids utilizing murine monoclonal antibodies which delineate didtinct neutralizing epitope. Cytokine. 1994. 6:647–656.
11. Matthay MA, Zimmerman GA. Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome: four decades of inquiry into pathogenesis and rational management. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2005. 33:319–327.
12. Ashbaugh DG, Bigelow DB, Petty TL, Levine BE. Acute respiratory distress in adults. Lancet. 1967. 2:319. 323.
13. The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2000. 342:1301–1308.
14. Brower RG, Lanken PN, MacIntyre N, Matthay MA, Morris A, Ancukiewicz M, et al. Higher versus lower positive end-expiratory pressures in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2004. 351:327. 336.
15. Zimmerman GA, Albertine KH, McIntyre TM. Lenfant C, Matthay MA, editors. Pathogenesis of sepsis and septic-induced lung inury. Acute respiratory distress syndrome. 2003. 1st ed. New York: Marcel Dekker;245–287.
16. Jang AS, Lee JU, Choi IS, Park KO, Lee JH, Park SW, et al. Expression of nitric oxide synthase, aquaporin 1 and aquaporin 5 in rat after bleomycin inhalation. Intensive Care Med. 2004. 30:489–495.
17. Moncada S, Palmer RM, Higgs EA. Biosynthesis of nitric oxide from L-arginine: a pathway for the regulation of cell function and communication. Biochem Pharmacol. 1989. 38:1709–1715.
18. Moncada S, Palmer RMJ, Higgs EA. Nitric oxide: physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology. Pharmacol Rev. 1991. 43:109–142.
19. Haddad IY, Pataki G, Hu P, Galliani C, Beckman JS, Matalon S. Quantification of nitrotyrosine levels in lung secretions of patients and animals with acute lung injury. J Clin Invest. 1994. 94:2407–2413.
20. Agre P, Saboori AM, Asimos A, Smith BL. Purification and partial characterization of the Mr 30,000 integral membrane protein associated with the erythrocyte Rh(D) antigen. J Biol Chem. 1987. 262:17497–17503.
21. Denker BM, Smith BL, Kuhajda FP, Agre P. Identification, purification, and partial characterization of a novel Mr 28,000 integral membrane protein from erythrocytes and renal tubules. J Biol Chem. 1988. 263:15634–15642.
22. Preston GM, Agre P. Isolation of the cDNA for erythrocyte integral membrane protein of 28 kilodaltons: member of an ancient channel family. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1991. 88:11110–11114.
23. Preston GM, Carroll TP, Guggino WB, Agre P. Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein. Science. 1992. 256:385–387.
24. Jung JS, Preston GM, Smith BL, Guggino WB, Agre P. Molecular structure of the water channel through aquaporin CHIP. J Biol Chem. 1994. 269:14648–14654.
25. van Hoek AN, Yang B, Kimiz S, Brown D. Freez-fracture analysis of plasma membrane of CHO cells stably expressing aquaporin1-5. J Membr Biol. 1998. 165:243–254.
26. Yang B, Brown D, Verkman AS. The mercurial insensitive water channel (AQP4) forms orthogonal arrays in stably transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells. J Biol Chem. 1996. 271:4577–4580.