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ReviewAnnual review of physiology2025

Proresolving Lipid Mediators in the Respiratory System.

Charles N Serhan, Bruce D Levy

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Review in Annual review of physiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Charles N SerhanCenter for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: cserhan@bwh.harvard.edu.
Bruce D LevyPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: blevy@bwh.harvard.edu.

Funding

Rapid saliva antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 detectionU01HL146002 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ARONICA, MARK A, CASTRO, MARIO · 2019 to 2023
$17.3M
Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators in AsthmaR01HL122531 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, BRUCE D · 2014 to 2024
$4.7M
Evaluating Resolution Mechanisms for Infectious InflammationR35GM139430 · NIGMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SERHAN, CHARLES NICHOLAS · 2021 to 2025
$3.6M
Traffic-Related Ultrafine Particles Disrupt The Resolution Of Lung InflammationR01HL168899 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Philip Demokritou, Bruce D Levy · 2024 to 2026
$2.1M
EPHEDRA: Enhanced PHthisic by Environmental Disruptors of Resolution AgonistsR56ES033250 · NIEHS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, BRUCE D, SERHAN, CHARLES NICHOLAS · 2022 to 2022
$511k
Monitoring pro-resolving leukocyte responses in peripheral blood predicts clinical severity during sepsisR21GM144829 · NIGMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, BRUCE D, VOLDMAN, JOEL · 2022 to 2023
$459k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL122531NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL168899NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL146002NIEHS NIH HHS R56 ES033250NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM144829NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM139430
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung inflammation, infection, and injury can lead to critical illness and death. The current means to pharmacologically treat excessive uncontrolled lung inflammation needs improvement because many treatments are or will become immunosuppressive. The inflammatory response evolved to protect the host from microbes, injury, and environmental insults. This response brings phagocytes from the bloodstream to the tissue site to phagocytize and neutralize bacterial invaders and enables airway antimicrobial functions. This physiologic response is ideally self-limited with initiation and resolution phases. Polyunsaturated essential fatty acids are precursors to potent molecules that govern both phases. In the initiation phase, arachidonic acid is converted to prostaglandins and leukotrienes that activate leukocytes to transmigrate from postcapillary venules. The omega-3 fatty acids (e.g., DHA and EPA) are precursors to resolvins, protectins, and maresins, which are families of chemically distinct mediators with potent functions in resolution of acute and chronic inflammation in the respiratory system.

Indexed as

Inflammation MediatorsRespiratory SystemAnimalsHumansInflammation Mediatorscysteinyl-specialized proresolving mediatorsefferocytosislung diseasepolyunsaturated fatty acidproresolving mediatorsresolvins

Identifiers

PMID39303274
PMCPMC11810588

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