Publications

Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Gay-Jordi, G., Knudsen, L., Ochs, M., Serrano-Mollar, A.: Front Med. 2021;8:640020. To access the full article, click here: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressively and ultimately fatal lung disease. Previously it has been shown that intratracheal administration of alveolar epithelial type II cells (AE2C) in

Brandt, R., Timm, S., Gorenflos López, J.L., Kwame Abledu, J., Kuebler, W.M., Hackenberger, C.P.R., Ochs, M., Lopez-Rodriguez, E.: Front Bioeng Biotech. 2021;8:614357. To access the full article, click here: The glycocalyx—a plethora of sugars forming a dense layer that covers the cell membrane—

Albert, K., Krischer, J.M., Pfaffenroth, A., Wilde, S., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Braun, A., Smith, B.J., Knudsen, L.: Front Physiol. 2020;11:530485. To access the full article, click here: Mechanical ventilation of lungs suffering from microatelectases may trigger the development of acute lung injury (ALI). Direct lung injury by

Ahrendt, N., Steingrüber, T., Rajces, A., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Eisenberg, T., Magnes, C., Madeo, F., Sedej, S., Schmiedl, A., Ochs, M., Mühlfeld, C., Schipke, J.: Am J Physiol-Lung C. 2020;319(2):L312-24. To access the full article, click here: Obesity is associated with lung function impairment and respiratory diseases; however,

Sehlmeyer, K., Ruwisch, J., Roldan, N., Lopez-Rodriguez, E.: Front Physiol. 2020;11:386. To access the full article, click here: Surfactant protein C (SP-C) is an important player in enhancing the interfacial adsorption of lung surfactant lipid films to the alveolar air-liquid interface. Doing so, surface tension drops down enough

Ochs, M., Hegermann, J., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Timm, S., Nouailles, G., Matuszak, J., Simmons, S., Witzenrath, M., Kuebler, W.M.: Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(9). To access the full article, click here: Gas exchange in the lung takes place via the air-blood barrier in the septal walls of alveoli.

Hetzel, M., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Mucci, A., Nguyen, A.H.H., Suzuki, T., Shima, K., Buchegger, T., Dettmer, S., Rodt, T., Bankstahl, J.P., Malik, P., Knudsen, L., Schambach, A., Hansen, G., Trapnell, B.C., Lachmann, N., Moritz, T.: Haematologica. 2020;105(4):1147-57. To access the full article, click here:

Echaide, M., Autilio, C., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Cruz, A., Pérez-Gil, J.: Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):1385. To access the full article, click here: CHF5633 is a novel synthetic clinical pulmonary surfactant preparation composed by two phospholipid species, dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and palmitoyloleoyl phosphatidylglycerol (POPG), and synthetic analogues of the hydrophobic

Ruwisch, J., Sehlmeyer, K., Roldan, N., Garcia-Alvarez, B., Perez-Gil, J., Weaver, T.E., Ochs, M., Knudsen, L., Lopez-Rodriguez, E.: Am J Resp Cell Mol. 2020;62(4):466-78. To access the full article, click here: Surfactant protein (SP)-C deficiency is found in samples from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,