AAI	Acute airway inflammation
ADP	Adenosine diphosphate
ANOVA	Analysis of variance
ARDS	Acute respiratory distress syndrome
ATP	Adenosine triphosphate
BALF	Broncho-alveolar lavage fluid
BMCs	Bone marrow cells
C57BL/6	C57 black 6
cDNA	complementary deoxyribonucleic acid
COPD	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cre	Cyclization recombination or causes recombination
DCs	Dendritic cells
ddH2O	Double distilled H2O
EDTA	Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
ELISA	Enzyme-linked immunoassay
FACS	Fluorescence-activated cell sorting
FITC	Fluorescein isothiocyanate
Fl	flox
GAPDH	Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
H&E	Hematoxylin and eosin
HDM	House dust mite
i.p.	Intraperitoneal
i.t.	Intratracheal
IFN-γ	Interferon gamma
IL	Interleukin
IPF	Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
KC	Keratinocytes-derived chemokine
KO	Knockout
LPS	Lipopolysaccharide
Ly6G	Lymphocyte antigen 6 complex locus G6D
MIP-2	Macrophage-inflammatory protein 2
ns	not significant
P2R	Purinergic-type 2-receptor
PBS	Phosphate buffer saline
PE-Cy7	Phycoerythrin-Cyanine7
PMN	Polymorphonuclear neutrophil
PPADS	Pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl-2’,4’-disulfonic acid
qPCR	Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
SEM	Standard error of the mean
specific	pathogen-free (SPF)
TaqMan	Taq Polymerase + PacMan
TNF-α	Tumor necrosis factor alpha
TRPV4	Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4
UDP	Uridine diphosphate
UTP	Uridine triphosphate
WT	Wild type