| | Meeting Report First Siena International Conference on Animal Models of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Certosa di Pontignano, University of Siena, Italy, September 30-October 2, 2001 David Hele PMCID: PMC64810 Commentaries A new direction in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Jack Gauldie, Martin Kolb, and Patricia J Sime PMCID: PMC64807 Growth factors in lung development and disease: friends or foe? Tushar J Desai and Wellington V Cardoso PMCID: PMC64813 The relationship between FV Leiden and pulmonary embolism W Craig Hooper and Christine De Staercke PMCID: PMC64819 Anorexigen-induced pulmonary hypertension and the serotonin (5-HT) hypothesis: lessons for the future in pathogenesis Saadia Eddahibi and Serge Adnot PMCID: PMC64820 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an epithelial/fibroblastic cross-talk disorder Rakesh K Kumar PMCID: PMC2083190 Reviews Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an epithelial/fibroblastic cross-talk disorder Moisés Selman and Annie Pardo PMCID: PMC64814 The role of surfactant in asthma Jens M Hohlfeld PMCID: PMC64815 The importance of balanced pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mechanisms in diffuse lung disease Michael P Keane and Robert M Strieter PMCID: PMC64816 Genotyping in the MHC locus: potential for defining predictive markers in sarcoidosis Ulrike Seitzer, Johannes Gerdes, and Joachim Müller-Quernheim PMCID: PMC64817 Interactions between genes and environmental factors in asthma and atopy: new developments Claudia Sengler, Susanne Lau, Ulrich Wahn, and Renate Nickel PMCID: PMC64818 Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and airway disease Ian P Hall PMCID: PMC64808 Autocrine regulation of asthmatic airway inflammation: role of airway smooth muscle Sue McKay and Hari S Sharma PMCID: PMC64809 Growth factors in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: relative roles Jeremy T Allen and Monica A Spiteri PMCID: PMC64811 Surfactant gene polymorphisms and interstitial lung diseases Panagiotis Pantelidis, Srihari Veeraraghavan, and Roland M du Bois PMCID: PMC64812 Genetic polymorphisms in lung disease: bandwagon or breakthrough? Michael C Iannuzzi, Mary Maliarik, and Benjamin Rybicki PMCID: PMC107844 Focusing on diffuse (interstitial) lung disease: a rapidly evolving field Roland M du Bois PMCID: PMC107845 Lung surfactant in subacute pulmonary disease Gehan Devendra and Roger G Spragg PMCID: PMC107848 Preneoplastic lesions of the lung Alissa K Greenberg, Herman Yee, and William N Rom PMCID: PMC107849 Oxygen-sensing mechanisms and the regulation of redox-responsive transcription factors in development and pathophysiology John J Haddad PMCID: PMC150511 Research Altered prostanoid production by fibroblasts cultured from the lungs of human subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Roberto Cruz-Gervis, Arlene A Stecenko, Ryszard Dworski, Kirk B Lane, James E Loyd, Richard Pierson, Gayle King, and Kenneth L Brigham PMCID: PMC107846 Binding of protegrin-1 to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia Mark T Albrecht, Wei Wang, Olga Shamova, Robert I Lehrer, and Neal L Schiller PMCID: PMC107847 Activation of adherent vascular neutrophils in the lung during acute endotoxemia Vasanthi R Sunil, Agnieszka J Connor, Peihong Zhou, Marion K Gordon, Jeffrey D Laskin, and Debra L Laskin PMCID: PMC150507 Mechanism of cigarette smoke condensate-induced acute inflammatory response in human bronchial epithelial cells Gary R Hellermann, Szilvia B Nagy, Xiaoyuan Kong, Richard F Lockey, and Shyam S Mohapatra PMCID: PMC150508 Activation of macrophage nuclear factor-κB and induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase by LPS Ying-Hua Li, Zhong-Qun Yan, Annelie Brauner, and Kjell Tullus PMCID: PMC150509 Distinct signal transduction processes by IL-4 and IL-13 and influences from the Q551R variant of the human IL-4 receptor alpha chain Susanne Kruse, Sandra Braun, and Klaus A Deichmann PMCID: PMC150510 The predictive role of serum and bronchoalveolar lavage cytokines and adhesion molecules for acute respiratory distress syndrome development and outcome Panagiotis Agouridakis, Despina Kyriakou, Michael G Alexandrakis, Athanasios Prekates, Kostas Perisinakis, Nikolaos Karkavitsas, and Demosthenes Bouros PMCID: PMC150513 Insulin utilizes the PI 3-kinase pathway to inhibit SP-A gene expression in lung epithelial cells Olga L Miakotina, Kelli L Goss, and Jeanne M Snyder PMCID: PMC150512 Tumor Necrosis Factor-α +489G/A gene polymorphism is associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Mehmet Küçükaycan, Michiel Van Krugten, Herman-Jan Pennings, Tom WJ Huizinga, Wim A Buurman, Mieke A Dentener, and Emiel FM Wouters PMCID: PMC150514 |
