| | Reviews Molecular mechanisms of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) David A Groneberg, Rolf Hilgenfeld, and Peter Zabel PMCID: PMC548145 Anaphylatoxin C3a receptors in asthma Hydar Ali and Reynold A Panettieri, Jr PMCID: PMC551592 Interstitial lung disease in children – genetic background and associated phenotypes Dominik Hartl and Matthias Griese PMCID: PMC1090616 ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters in normal and pathological lung Margaretha van der Deen, Elisabeth GE de Vries, Wim Timens, Rik J Scheper, Hetty Timmer-Bosscha, and Dirkje S Postma PMCID: PMC1200430 Serum biomarkers in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome an ailing prognosticator Argyris Tzouvelekis, Ioannis Pneumatikos, and Demosthenes Bouros PMCID: PMC1168906 Serum biomarkers in interstitial lung diseases Argyris Tzouvelekis, George Kouliatsis, Stavros Anevlavis, and Demosthenes Bouros PMCID: PMC1215520 The pathophysiological function of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ in lung-related diseases Tom Hsun-Wei Huang, Valentina Razmovski-Naumovski, Bhavani Prasad Kota, Diana Shu-Hsuan Lin, and Basil D Roufogalis PMCID: PMC1242255 Research Human lung cancer cells express functionally active Toll-like receptor 9 Daniel Droemann, Dirk Albrecht, Johannes Gerdes, Artur J Ulmer, Detlev Branscheid, Ekkehard Vollmer, Klaus Dalhoff, Peter Zabel, and Torsten Goldmann PMCID: PMC544843 Modulation of epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) expression in mouse lung infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa André Dagenais, Diane Gosselin, Claudine Guilbault, Danuta Radzioch, and Yves Berthiaume PMCID: PMC546414 Cough quality in children: a comparison of subjective vs. bronchoscopic findings Anne Bernadette Chang, Justin Thomas Gaffney, Matthew Michael Eastburn, Joan Faoagali, Nancy C Cox, and Ian Brent Masters PMCID: PMC545936 Involvement of RhoA-mediated Ca2+ sensitization in antigen-induced bronchial smooth muscle hyperresponsiveness in mice Yoshihiko Chiba, Ayako Ueno, Koji Shinozaki, Hisao Takeyama, Shuji Nakazawa, Hiroyasu Sakai, and Miwa Misawa PMCID: PMC545934 Dynamic changes of serum SARS-Coronavirus IgG, pulmonary function and radiography in patients recovering from SARS after hospital discharge Lixin Xie, Youning Liu, Baoxing Fan, Yueyong Xiao, Qing Tian, Liangan Chen, Hong Zhao, and Weijun Chen PMCID: PMC545044 Epimorphin expression in interstitial pneumonia Yasuhiro Terasaki, Yuh Fukuda, Moritaka Suga, Naoki Ikeguchi, and Motohiro Takeya PMCID: PMC548284 Predominant constitutive CFTR conductance in small airways Xiaofei Wang, Christian Lytle, and Paul M Quinton PMCID: PMC548141 The effect of IL-13 and IL-13R130Q, a naturally occurring IL-13 polymorphism, on the gene expression of human airway smooth muscle cells Farhat Syed, Reynold A Panettieri, Jr, Omar Tliba, Chris Huang, Katherine Li, Michelle Bracht, Bernard Amegadzie, Don Griswold, Li Li, and Yassine Amrani PMCID: PMC548512 Inhibition of TNFalpha in vivo prevents hyperoxia-mediated activation of caspase 3 in type II cells Florian Guthmann, Heide Wissel, Christian Schachtrup, Angelika Tölle, Mario Rüdiger, Friedrich Spener, and Bernd Rüstow PMCID: PMC548140 The absence of reactive oxygen species production protects mice against bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis Boris Manoury, Soazig Nenan, Olivier Leclerc, Isabelle Guenon, Elisabeth Boichot, Jean-Michel Planquois, Claude P Bertrand, and Vincent Lagente PMCID: PMC548519 Prolastin, a pharmaceutical preparation of purified human α1-antitrypsin, blocks endotoxin-mediated cytokine release Izabela Nita, Camilla Hollander, Ulla Westin, and Sabina-Marija Janciauskiene PMCID: PMC549028 Extent of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and its dose-response relation to respiratory health among adults Wasim Maziak, Kenneth D Ward, Samer Rastam, Fawaz Mzayek, and Thomas Eissenberg PMCID: PMC549073 Marked alveolar apoptosis/proliferation imbalance in end-stage emphysema Fiorella Calabrese, Cinzia Giacometti, Bianca Beghe, Federico Rea, Monica Loy, Renzo Zuin, Giuseppe Marulli, Simonetta Baraldo, Marina Saetta, and Marialuisa Valente PMCID: PMC549521 Correlation of exhaled breath temperature with bronchial blood flow in asthma Paolo Paredi, Sergei A Kharitonov, and Peter J Barnes PMCID: PMC553993 Quantification of the magnification and distortion effects of a pediatric flexible video-bronchoscope IB Masters, MM Eastburn, PW Francis, R Wootton, PV Zimmerman, RS Ware, and AB Chang PMCID: PMC549513 Chronic pneumonia with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and impaired alveolar fluid clearance Sophie Boyer, Karine Faure, Florence Ader, Marie Odile Husson, Eric Kipnis, Thierry Prangere, Xavier Leroy, and Benoit P Guery PMCID: PMC551591 Plasma antibodies against heat shock protein 70 correlate with the incidence and severity of asthma in a Chinese population Miao Yang, Tangchun Wu, Longxian Cheng, Feng Wang, Qingyi Wei, and Robert M Tanguay PMCID: PMC549531 CXCR3/CXCL10 interactions in the development of hypersensitivity pneumonitis Carlo Agostini, Fiorella Calabrese, Venerino Poletti, Guido Marcer, Monica Facco, Marta Miorin, Anna Cabrelle, Ilenia Baesso, Renato Zambello, Livio Trentin, and Gianpietro Semenzato PMCID: PMC554979 Monitoring the initial pulmonary absorption of two different beclomethasone dipropionate aerosols employing a human lung reperfusion model Matthias Freiwald, Anagnostis Valotis, Andreas Kirschbaum, Monika McClellan, Thomas Mürdter, Peter Fritz, Godehard Friedel, Michael Thomas, and Petra Högger PMCID: PMC555845 Acute effects of cigarette smoking on inflammation in healthy intermittent smokers Hester van der Vaart, Dirkje S Postma, Wim Timens, Machteld N Hylkema, Brigitte WM Willemse, H Marike Boezen, Judith M Vonk, Dorothea M de Reus, Henk F Kauffman, and Nick HT ten Hacken PMCID: PMC554761 Arginase attenuates inhibitory nonadrenergic noncholinergic nerve-induced nitric oxide generation and airway smooth muscle relaxation Harm Maarsingh, Marieke A Tio, Johan Zaagsma, and Herman Meurs PMCID: PMC555585 Inhibition of breathing after surfactant depletion is achieved at a higher arterial PCO2 during ventilation with liquid than with gas Esther Rieger-Fackeldey, Richard Sindelar, Anders Jonzon, Andreas Schulze, and Gunnar Sedin PMCID: PMC555763 Local therapy with CpG motifs in a murine model of allergic airway inflammation in IFN-β knock-out mice Victor Matheu, Alexandra Treschow, Ingrid Teige, Vaidrius Navikas, and Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas PMCID: PMC555575 Airway epithelial cell tolerance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Qi Wu, Zhong Lu, Margrith W Verghese, and Scott H Randell PMCID: PMC1087506 Atorvastatin reduces lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in human pulmonary epithelial cells ShangJie Wu, Shu Duan, ShuiPing Zhao, Ying Cai, Ping Chen, and Xiang Fang PMCID: PMC1079946 Medroxyprogesterone improves nocturnal breathing in postmenopausal women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Tarja Saaresranta, Tero Aittokallio, Karri Utriainen, and Olli Polo PMCID: PMC1079947 Expression of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in human lung cells Howard K Plummer, III, Madhu Dhar, and Hildegard M Schuller PMCID: PMC1079948 Quantification of collagen and proteoglycan deposition in a murine model of airway remodelling Alistair K Reinhardt, Stephen E Bottoms, Geoffrey J Laurent, and Robin J McAnulty PMCID: PMC1112615 Deficiency in type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor in mice protects against oxygen-induced lung injury Karmene Ahamed, Ralph Epaud, Martin Holzenberger, Monique Bonora, Jean-François Flejou, Julien Puard, Annick Clement, and Alexandra Henrion-Caude PMCID: PMC1084363 Airway allergen exposure stimulates bone marrow eosinophilia partly via IL-9 Brigita Sitkauskiene, Madeleine Rådinger, Apostolos Bossios, Anna-Karin Johansson, Raimundas Sakalauskas, and Jan Lötvall PMCID: PMC1090617 Titanium dioxide particle – induced goblet cell hyperplasia : association with mast cells and IL-13 Mi-Hyun Ahn, Chun-Mi Kang, Choon-Sik Park, Sang-Jun Park, Taiyoun Rhim, Pyeong-Oh Yoon, Hun Soo Chang, Soo-Ho Kim, Hiroko Kyono, and Kwang Chul Kim PMCID: PMC1087883 Occupational risk of tuberculosis transmission in a low incidence area Roland Diel, Andreas Seidler, Albert Nienhaus, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, and Stefan Niemann PMCID: PMC1087884 Inhibitors of mitogen-activated protein kinases differentially regulate costimulated T cell cytokine production and mouse airway eosinophilia Ligia Chialda, Meixia Zhang, Kay Brune, and Andreas Pahl PMCID: PMC1131927 Altered expression of membrane-bound and soluble CD95/Fas contributes to the resistance of fibrotic lung fibroblasts to FasL induced apoptosis Frank Bühling, Aline Wille, Christoph Röcken, Olaf Wiesner, Anja Baier, Ingmar Meinecke, Tobias Welte, and Thomas Pap PMCID: PMC1087885 Association of current smoking with airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asymptomatic smokers Brigitte WM Willemse, Nick HT ten Hacken, Bea Rutgers, Dirkje S Postma, and Wim Timens PMCID: PMC1140754 Validation of a brief telephone battery for neurocognitive assessment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension Darren B Taichman, Jason Christie, Rosette Biester, Jennifer Mortensen, Joanne White, Sandra Kaplan, John Hansen-Flaschen, Harold I Palevsky, C Gregory Elliott, and Ramona O Hopkins PMCID: PMC1112616 Development of a lung slice preparation for recording ion channel activity in alveolar epithelial type I cells Steven Bourke, Helen S Mason, Zea Borok, Kwang-Jin Kim, Edward D Crandall, and Paul J Kemp PMCID: PMC1131928 Fractal ventilation enhances respiratory sinus arrhythmia W Alan C Mutch, M Ruth Graham, Linda G Girling, and John F Brewster PMCID: PMC1142342 Persistence of lung inflammation and lung cytokines with high-resolution CT abnormalities during recovery from SARS Chun-Hua Wang, Chien-Ying Liu, Yung-Liang Wan, Chun-Liang Chou, Kuo-Hsiung Huang, Horng-Chyuan Lin, Shu-Min Lin, Tzou-Yien Lin, Kian Fan Chung, and Han-Pin Kuo PMCID: PMC1156954 The effect of refurbishing a UK steel plant on PM10 metal composition and ability to induce inflammation Gary R Hutchison, David M Brown, Leon R Hibbs, Mathew R Heal, Ken Donaldson, Robert L Maynard, Michelle Monaghan, Andy Nicholl, and Vicki Stone PMCID: PMC1156955 Interleukin-17A mRNA and protein expression within cells from the human bronchoalveolar space after exposure to organic dust Stefan Ivanov, Lena Palmberg, Per Venge, Kjell Larsson, and Anders Lindén PMCID: PMC1166577 Accelerated decline in lung function in smoking women with airway obstruction: SAPALDIA 2 cohort study Sara H Downs, Otto Brändli, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Christian Schindler, Nino Künzli, Margaret W Gerbase, Luc Burdet, Robert Bettschart, Elisabeth Zemp, Martin Frey, Roland Keller, Jean-Marie Tschopp, Philippe Leuenberger, Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich, and the SAPALDIA team PMCID: PMC1177989 Antigen-sensitized CD4+CD62Llow memory/effector T helper 2 cells can induce airway hyperresponsiveness in an antigen free setting Kazuyuki Nakagome, Makoto Dohi, Katsuhide Okunishi, Yasuo To, Atsushi Sato, Yoshinori Komagata, Katsuya Nagatani, Ryoichi Tanaka, and Kazuhiko Yamamoto PMCID: PMC1180472 Short-term variability of biomarkers of proteinase activity in patients with emphysema associated with type Z alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency Jan Stolk, Barbara Veldhuisen, Laura Annovazzi, Chiara Zanone, Elly M Versteeg, Toine H van Kuppevelt, Willem Nieuwenhuizen, Paolo Iadarola, and Maurizio Luisetti PMCID: PMC1159172 Activation of the SPHK/S1P signalling pathway is coupled to muscarinic receptor-dependent regulation of peripheral airways Melanie Pfaff, Norbert Powaga, Sibel Akinci, Werner Schütz, Yoshiko Banno, Silke Wiegand, Wolfgang Kummer, Jürgen Wess, and Rainer Viktor Haberberger PMCID: PMC1156956 Bacterial activity in cystic fibrosis lung infections Geraint B Rogers, Mary P Carroll, David J Serisier, Peter M Hockey, Valia Kehagia, Graeme R Jones, and Kenneth D Bruce PMCID: PMC1177990 Multiple exposures to swine barn air induce lung inflammation and airway hyper-responsiveness Chandrashekhar Charavaryamath, Kyathanahalli S Janardhan, Hugh G Townsend, Philip Willson, and Baljit Singh PMCID: PMC1164433 Chlamydophila pneumoniae induces expression of Toll-like Receptor 4 and release of TNF-α and MIP-2 via an NF-κB pathway in rat type II pneumocytes Heide Wissel, Christian Schulz, Petra Koehne, Ekkehard Richter, Matthias Maass, and Mario Rüdiger PMCID: PMC1180473 Polymorphisms in signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 and lung function in asthma Augusto A Litonjua, Kelan G Tantisira, Stephen Lake, Ross Lazarus, Brent G Richter, Stacey Gabriel, Eric S Silverman, and Scott T Weiss PMCID: PMC1180474 The use of non-bronchoscopic brushings to study the paediatric airway Catherine Lane, Scott Burgess, Anthony Kicic, Darryl Knight, and Stephen Stick PMCID: PMC1180854 Respiratory rehabilitation after acute exacerbation of COPD may reduce risk for readmission and mortality – a systematic review Milo A Puhan, Madlaina Scharplatz, Thierry Troosters, and Johann Steurer PMCID: PMC1164434 Association between reduced bronchodilatory effect of deep inspiration and loss of alveolar attachments Nicola Scichilone, Andreina Bruno, Roberto Marchese, Antonio Maurizio Vignola, Alkis Togias, and Vincenzo Bellia PMCID: PMC1180475 TGF-β1 induces human alveolar epithelial to mesenchymal cell transition (EMT) Hidenori Kasai, Jeremy T Allen, Roger M Mason, Takashi Kamimura, and Zhi Zhang PMCID: PMC1177991 Expression of HSP47 in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia and Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia Tomoyuki Kakugawa, Hiroshi Mukae, Tomayoshi Hayashi, Hiroshi Ishii, Seiko Nakayama, Noriho Sakamoto, Sumako Yoshioka, Kanako Sugiyama, Mariko Mine, Yohei Mizuta, and Shigeru Kohno PMCID: PMC1200429 Inhibition or knock out of Inducible nitric oxide synthase result in resistance to bleomycin-induced lung injury Tiziana Genovese, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Rosanna Di Paola, Marco Failla, Emanuela Mazzon, Maria Angela Sortino, Giuseppina Frasca, Elisa Gili, Nunzio Crimi, Achille P Caputi, and Carlo Vancheri PMCID: PMC1177992 Improved lung preservation relates to an increase in tubular myelin-associated surfactant protein A Heinz Fehrenbach, Sebastian Tews, Antonia Fehrenbach, Matthias Ochs, Thorsten Wittwer, Thorsten Wahlers, and Joachim Richter PMCID: PMC1187923 Alveolar macrophages regulate neutrophil recruitment in endotoxin-induced lung injury Beatrice Beck-Schimmer, Reto Schwendener, Thomas Pasch, Livia Reyes, Christa Booy, and Ralph C Schimmer PMCID: PMC1188075 CD14 C-159T and early infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in children with cystic fibrosis AC Martin, IA Laing, G Zhang, S Brennan, K Winfield, PD Sly, SM Stick, J Goldblatt, and PN LeSouef PMCID: PMC1168907 Mathematical modelling to centre low tidal volumes following acute lung injury: A study with biologically variable ventilation M Ruth Graham, Craig J Haberman, John F Brewster, Linda G Girling, Bruce M McManus, and W Alan C Mutch PMCID: PMC1200564 Estimation of airway obstruction using oximeter plethysmograph waveform data Donald H Arnold, David M Spiro, Renee' A Desmond, and James S Hagood PMCID: PMC1168908 Green tea polyphenol extract attenuates lung injury in experimental model of carrageenan-induced pleurisy in mice Rosanna Di Paola, Emanuela Mazzon, Carmelo Muià, Tiziana Genovese, Marta Menegazzi, Raffaela Zaffini, Hisanory Suzuki, and Salvatore Cuzzocrea PMCID: PMC1177993 IL-4 increases type 2, but not type 1, cytokine production in CD8+ T cells from mild atopic asthmatics Luminita A Stanciu, Kevan Roberts, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos, Sang-Heon Cho, Stephen T Holgate, Anthony J Coyle, and Sebastian L Johnston PMCID: PMC1198257 Toll-like receptor 2 expression is decreased on alveolar macrophages in cigarette smokers and COPD patients Daniel Droemann, Torsten Goldmann, Thorsten Tiedje, Peter Zabel, Klaus Dalhoff, and Bernhard Schaaf PMCID: PMC1187924 Relation of exaggerated cytokine responses of CF airway epithelial cells to PAO1 adherence Dianne M Kube, David Fletcher, and Pamela B Davis PMCID: PMC1177994 The beta2 integrin CD11c distinguishes a subset of cytotoxic pulmonary T cells with potent antiviral effects in vitro and in vivo Marc Beyer, Hongwei Wang, Nina Peters, Sandra Doths, Cordula Koerner-Rettberg, Peter JM Openshaw, and Jürgen Schwarze PMCID: PMC1184101 Exhaled volatile organic compounds in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: cross sectional and nested short-term follow-up study Diana Poli, Paolo Carbognani, Massimo Corradi, Matteo Goldoni, Olga Acampa, Bruno Balbi, Luca Bianchi, Michele Rusca, and Antonio Mutti PMCID: PMC1185565 Airway cellularity, lipid laden macrophages and microbiology of gastric juice and airways in children with reflux oesophagitis AB Chang, NC Cox, J Purcell, JM Marchant, PJ Lewindon, GJ Cleghorn, LC Ee, GD Withers, MK Patrick, and J Faoagali PMCID: PMC1185566 Quantitative trait analysis of the development of pulmonary tolerance to inhaled zinc oxide in mice Scott C Wesselkamper, Lung Chi Chen, and Terry Gordon PMCID: PMC1180855 Cigarette smoke induces IL-8, but inhibits eotaxin and RANTES release from airway smooth muscle Ute Oltmanns, Kian F Chung, Matthew Walters, Matthias John, and Jane A Mitchell PMCID: PMC1187925 CCR2 and CXCR3 agonistic chemokines are differently expressed and regulated in human alveolar epithelial cells type II Dmitri V Pechkovsky, Torsten Goldmann, Corinna Ludwig, Antje Prasse, Ekkehard Vollmer, Joachim Müller-Quernheim, and Gernot Zissel PMCID: PMC1185567 Lung vasodilatory response to inhaled iloprost in experimental pulmonary hypertension: amplification by different type phosphodiesterase inhibitors Ralph Theo Schermuly, Christiane Inholte, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, Henning Gall, Norbert Weissmann, Andreas Weidenbach, Werner Seeger, and Friedrich Grimminger PMCID: PMC1180856 Vitamin A deficiency alters the pulmonary parenchymal elastic modulus and elastic fiber concentration in rats Stephen E McGowan, Erika J Takle, and Amey J Holmes PMCID: PMC1199621 Exhaled 8-isoprostane in childhood asthma Sukhbir K Shahid, Sergei A Kharitonov, Nicola M Wilson, Andrew Bush, and Peter J Barnes PMCID: PMC1188076 Expression profiles of hydrophobic surfactant proteins in children with diffuse chronic lung disease Matthias Griese, Silja Schumacher, Mohammed Tredano, Manuela Steinecker, Annika Braun, Susan Guttentag, Michael F Beers, and Michel Bahuau PMCID: PMC1224872 CD8+ T lymphocytes in lung tissue from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Zoe Daniil, Panagiota Kitsanta, George Kapotsis, Maria Mathioudaki, Androniki Kollintza, Marilena Karatza, Joseph Milic-Emili, Charis Roussos, and Spyros A Papiris PMCID: PMC1199622 The effect of prior statin use on 30-day mortality for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia Eric M Mortensen, Marcos I Restrepo, Antonio Anzueto, and Jacqueline Pugh PMCID: PMC1199623 Is neutrophil elastase the missing link between emphysema and fibrosis? Evidence from two mouse models Monica Lucattelli, Barbara Bartalesi, Eleonora Cavarra, Silvia Fineschi, Benedetta Lunghi, Piero A Martorana, and Giuseppe Lungarella PMCID: PMC1184102 Overexpression of cathepsin K during silica-induced lung fibrosis and control by TGF-β Sybille van den Brûle, Pierre Misson, Frank Bühling, Dominique Lison, and François Huaux PMCID: PMC1188077 Role of contractile prostaglandins and Rho-kinase in growth factor-induced airway smooth muscle contraction Dedmer Schaafsma, Reinoud Gosens, I Sophie T Bos, Herman Meurs, Johan Zaagsma, and S Adriaan Nelemans PMCID: PMC1183249 Detection of reactive oxygen species in isolated, perfused lungs by electron spin resonance spectroscopy Norbert Weissmann, Nermin Kuzkaya, Beate Fuchs, Vedat Tiyerili, Rolf U Schäfer, Hartwig Schütte, Hossein A Ghofrani, Ralph T Schermuly, Christian Schudt, Akylbek Sydykov, Bakytbek Egemnazarow, Werner Seeger, and Friedrich Grimminger PMCID: PMC1184103 Alveolar macrophage-epithelial cell interaction following exposure to atmospheric particles induces the release of mediators involved in monocyte mobilization and recruitment Hiroshi Ishii, Shizu Hayashi, James C Hogg, Takeshi Fujii, Yukinobu Goto, Noriho Sakamoto, Hiroshi Mukae, Renaud Vincent, and Stephan F van Eeden PMCID: PMC1199624 Pilot study of losartan for pulmonary hypertension in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Nicholas W Morrell, Matthew A Higham, Peter G Phillips, B Haleema Shakur, Paul J Robinson, and Ray J Beddoes PMCID: PMC1198258 Global expression profiling of theophylline response genes in macrophages: evidence of airway anti-inflammatory regulation Pei-Li Yao, Meng-Feng Tsai, Yi-Chen Lin, Chien-Hsun Wang, Wei-Yu Liao, Jeremy JW Chen, and Pan-Chyr Yang PMCID: PMC1215521 Anti-Fas mAb-induced apoptosis and cytolysis of airway tissue eosinophils aggravates rather than resolves established inflammation Lena Uller, Kristina Rydell-Törmänen, Carl GA Persson, and Jonas S Erjefält PMCID: PMC1187926 PPARα downregulates airway inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide in the mouse Carine Delayre-Orthez, Julien Becker, Isabelle Guenon, Vincent Lagente, Johan Auwerx, Nelly Frossard, and Françoise Pons PMCID: PMC1199625 Health-related quality of life in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension Darren B Taichman, Jennifer Shin, Laryssa Hud, Christine Archer-Chicko, Sandra Kaplan, Jeffery S Sager, Robert Gallop, Jason Christie, John Hansen-Flaschen, and Harold Palevsky PMCID: PMC1208953 A role for MCP-1/CCR2 in interstitial lung disease in children Dominik Hartl, Matthias Griese, Thomas Nicolai, Gernot Zissel, Christine Prell, Dietrich Reinhardt, Dolores J Schendel, and Susanne Krauss-Etschmann PMCID: PMC1199626 Identification of HLA-DRPheβ47 as the susceptibility marker of hypersensitivity to beryllium in individuals lacking the berylliosis-associated supratypic marker HLA-DPGluβ69 Massimo Amicosante, Floriana Berretta, Milton Rossman, Richard H Butler, Paola Rogliani, Ella van den Berg-Loonen, and Cesare Saltini PMCID: PMC1198259 Incidence of asthma and mortality in a cohort of young adults: a 7-year prospective study Roberto de Marco, Francesca Locatelli, Lucia Cazzoletti, Massimilian Bugianio, Aurelia Carosso, and Alessandra Marinoni PMCID: PMC1201174 Functional, radiological and biological markers of alveolitis and infections of the lower respiratory tract in patients with systemic sclerosis Maria De Santis, Silvia Bosello, Giuseppe La Torre, Anna Capuano, Barbara Tolusso, Gabriella Pagliari, Riccardo Pistelli, Francesco Maria Danza, Angelo Zoli, and Gianfranco Ferraccioli PMCID: PMC1208954 Surfactant Protein-A inhibits Aspergillus fumigatus-induced allergic T-cell responses Seth Thomas Scanlon, Tatyana Milovanova, Sonja Kierstein, Yang Cao, Elena N Atochina, Yaniv Tomer, Scott J Russo, Michael F Beers, and Angela Haczku PMCID: PMC1208955 Mortality in GOLD stages of COPD and its dependence on symptoms of chronic bronchitis Marie Ekberg-Aronsson, Kerstin Pehrsson, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Peter M Nilsson, and Claes-Göran Löfdahl PMCID: PMC1224873 Impediment in upper airway stabilizing forces assessed by phrenic nerve stimulation in sleep apnea patients F Sériès, E Vérin, and T Similowski PMCID: PMC1236961 Up-regulation of Toll-like receptors 2, 3 and 4 in allergic rhinitis Mattias Fransson, Mikael Adner, Jonas Erjefält, Lennart Jansson, Rolf Uddman, and Lars-Olaf Cardell PMCID: PMC1243240 Incomplete quality of life data in lung transplant research: comparing cross sectional, repeated measures ANOVA, and multi-level analysis Karin M Vermeulen, Wendy J Post, Mark M Span, Wim van der Bij, Gerard H Koëter, and Elisabeth M TenVergert PMCID: PMC1236960 Interaction between human lung fibroblasts and T-lymphocytes prevents activation of CD4+ cells Carlo Vancheri, Claudio Mastruzzo, Elisa Trovato-Salinaro, Elisa Gili, Debora Lo Furno, Maria P Pistorio, Massimo Caruso, Cristina La Rosa, Claudia Crimi, Marco Failla, and Nunzio Crimi PMCID: PMC1243241 Immune sensitization of equine bronchus: glutathione, IL-1β expression and tissue responsiveness MG Matera, L Calzetta, A Peli, A Scagliarini, C Matera, and M Cazzola PMCID: PMC1261534 Induction of p38- and gC1qR-dependent IL-8 expression in pulmonary fibroblasts by soluble hepatitis C core protein Jonathan P Moorman, S Matthew Fitzgerald, Deborah C Prayther, Steven A Lee, David S Chi, and Guha Krishnaswamy PMCID: PMC1243242 Effects of nano particles on antigen-related airway inflammation in mice Ken-ichiro Inoue, Hirohisa Takano, Rie Yanagisawa, Miho Sakurai, Takamichi Ichinose, Kaori Sadakane, and Toshikazu Yoshikawa PMCID: PMC1242256 Tolerance to bronchodilation during treatment with long-acting beta-agonists, a randomised controlled trial Sarah Haney and Robert J Hancox PMCID: PMC1266400 Effects of cigarette smoke on degranulation and NO production by mast cells and epithelial cells Xiu M Wei, Henry S Kim, Rakesh K Kumar, Gavin J Heywood, John E Hunt, H Patrick McNeil, and Paul S Thomas PMCID: PMC1262779 Expression profiling of laser-microdissected intrapulmonary arteries in hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension Grazyna Kwapiszewska, Jochen Wilhelm, Stephanie Wolff, Isabel Laumanns, Inke R Koenig, Andreas Ziegler, Werner Seeger, Rainer M Bohle, Norbert Weissmann, and Ludger Fink PMCID: PMC1261535 Uncoordinated production of Laminin-5 chains in airways epithelium of allergic asthmatics Kawa Amin, Christer Janson, Lahja Sevéus, Kaoru Miyazaki, Ismo Virtanen, and Per Venge PMCID: PMC1261536 E1A expression dysregulates IL-8 production and suppresses IL-6 production by lung epithelial cells Arjen van den Berg, Mieke Snoek, Henk M Jansen, and René Lutter PMCID: PMC1261537 The role of pro- and anti-inflammatory responses in silica-induced lung fibrosis Virginie Barbarin, Aurélie Nihoul, Pierre Misson, Mohammed Arras, Monique Delos, Isabelle Leclercq, Dominique Lison, and Francois Huaux PMCID: PMC1274346 Asthma and COPD in cystic fibrosis intron-8 5T carriers. A population-based study Morten Dahl, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Peter Lange, and Børge G Nordestgaard PMCID: PMC1277850 Rhinovirus infection induces cytotoxicity and delays wound healing in bronchial epithelial cells Apostolos Bossios, Stelios Psarras, Dimitrios Gourgiotis, Chrysanthi L Skevaki, Andreas G Constantopoulos, Photini Saxoni-Papageorgiou, and Nikolaos G Papadopoulos PMCID: PMC1283981 A confocal microscopic study of solitary pulmonary neuroendocrine cells in human airway epithelium Markus Weichselbaum, Malcolm P Sparrow, Elisha J Hamilton, Philip J Thompson, and Darryl A Knight PMCID: PMC1277851 Respiratory epithelial cells require Toll-like receptor 4 for induction of Human β-defensin 2 by Lipopolysaccharide Ruth MacRedmond, Catherine Greene, Clifford C Taggart, Noel McElvaney, and Shane O'Neill PMCID: PMC1276817 Gender differences in respiratory symptoms in 19-year-old adults born preterm Elianne JLE Vrijlandt, Jorrit Gerritsen, H Marike Boezen, Eric J Duiverman, and the Dutch POPS-19 Collaborative Study Group* PMCID: PMC1283982 Psoriasin, one of several new proteins identified in nasal lavage fluid from allergic and non-allergic individuals using 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry Malin Bryborn, Mikael Adner, and Lars-Olaf Cardell PMCID: PMC1282590 Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of exhaled leukotriene B4 in asthmatic children Paolo Montuschi, Simona Martello, Marialinda Felli, Chiara Mondino, Peter J Barnes, and Marcello Chiarotti PMCID: PMC1283153 Ethnic variations in incidence of asthma episodes in England & Wales:national study of 502,482 patients in primary care Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Brian Hurwitz, and Aziz Sheikh PMCID: PMC1276818 Sub-chronic inhalation of high concentrations of manganese sulfate induces lower airway pathology in rhesus monkeys David C Dorman, Melanie F Struve, Elizabeth A Gross, Brian A Wong, and Paul C Howroyd PMCID: PMC1283983 A role for airway remodeling during respiratory syncytial virus infection David Becnel, Dahui You, Joshua Erskin, Dawn M Dimina, and Stephania A Cormier PMCID: PMC1283984 Alcohol reversibly disrupts TNF-α/TACE interactions in the cell membrane Kejing Song, Xue-Jun Zhao, Luis Marrero, Peter Oliver, Steve Nelson, and Jay K Kolls PMCID: PMC1291403 Multiple P2Y receptors couple to calcium-dependent, chloride channels in smooth muscle cells of the rat pulmonary artery Krongkarn Chootip, Alison M Gurney, and Charles Kennedy PMCID: PMC1282591 Influence of hypoxia on the domiciliation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells after infusion into rats: possibilities of targeting pulmonary artery remodeling via cells therapies? Gaël Y Rochefort, Pascal Vaudin, Nicolas Bonnet, Jean-Christophe Pages, Jorge Domenech, Pierre Charbord, and Véronique Eder PMCID: PMC1291404 The role of surfactant protein D in the colonisation of the respiratory tract and onset of bacteraemia during pneumococcal pneumonia R Jounblat, H Clark, P Eggleton, S Hawgood, PW Andrew, and A Kadioglu PMCID: PMC1282592 Pulmonary function and fuel use: A population survey Asim Saha, N Mohan Rao, PK Kulkarni, PK Majumdar, and HN Saiyed PMCID: PMC1291405 Inhaled tolafentrine reverses pulmonary vascular remodeling via inhibition of smooth muscle cell migration Soni Pullamsetti, Stefanie Krick, Hüseyin Yilmaz, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, Christian Schudt, Norbert Weissmann, Beate Fuchs, Werner Seeger, Friedrich Grimminger, and Ralph Theo Schermuly PMCID: PMC1291406 The crucial role of particle surface reactivity in respirable quartz-induced reactive oxygen/nitrogen species formation and APE/Ref-1 induction in rat lung Catrin Albrecht, Ad M Knaapen, Andrea Becker, Doris Höhr, Petra Haberzettl, Frederik J van Schooten, Paul JA Borm, and Roel PF Schins PMCID: PMC1291407 Isolation of human β-defensin-4 in lung tissue and its increase in lower respiratory tract infection Shigehisa Yanagi, Jun-ichi Ashitani, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Yukari Date, Hiroshi Mukae, Naoyoshi Chino, and Masamitsu Nakazato PMCID: PMC1298335 Reference values for methacholine reactivity (SAPALDIA study) Pierre-Yves Jayet, Christian Schindler, Nino Künzli, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Otto Brändli, André Paul Perruchoud, Roland Keller, Joel Schwartz, Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich, Philippe Leuenberger, and SAPALDIA team PMCID: PMC1298336 Downregulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in nasal polyposis Lars-Olaf Cardell, Magnus Hägge, Rolf Uddman, and Mikael Adner PMCID: PMC1298337 Sequential analysis of surfactant, lung function and inflammation in cystic fibrosis patients Matthias Griese, Robert Essl, Reinhold Schmidt, Manfred Ballmann, Karl Paul, Ernst Rietschel, Felix Ratjen, and the Beat Study Group PMCID: PMC1308867 The Beijing genotype and drug resistant tuberculosis in the Aral Sea region of Central Asia Helen Suzanne Cox, Tanja Kubica, Daribay Doshetov, Yared Kebede, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdess, and Stefan Niemann PMCID: PMC1299328 Proinflammatory cytokine responses induced by influenza A (H5N1) viruses in primary human alveolar and bronchial epithelial cells MCW Chan, CY Cheung, WH Chui, SW Tsao, JM Nicholls, YO Chan, RWY Chan, HT Long, LLM Poon, Y Guan, and JSM Peiris PMCID: PMC1318487 Membrane TNF confers protection to acute mycobacterial infection Cecile Fremond, Nasiema Allie, Ivy Dambuza, Sergei I Grivennikov, Vladimir Yeremeev, Valerie FJ Quesniaux, Muazzam Jacobs, and Bernhard Ryffel PMCID: PMC1325056 Characterization of lymphocyte populations in nonspecific interstitial pneumonia* Karina A Keogh and Andrew H Limper PMCID: PMC1308868 Therapeutic lung lavages in children and adults Christian Paschen, Karl Reiter, Franz Stanzel, Helmut Teschler, and Matthias Griese PMCID: PMC1310528 Invasive versus noninvasive measurement of allergic and cholinergic airway responsiveness in mice Thomas Glaab, Michaela Ziegert, Ralf Baelder, Regina Korolewitz, Armin Braun, Jens M Hohlfeld, Wayne Mitzner, Norbert Krug, and Heinz G Hoymann PMCID: PMC1316879 Effects of cigarette smoke condensate on proliferation and wound closure of bronchial epithelial cells in vitro: role of glutathione Fabrizio Luppi, Jamil Aarbiou, Sandra van Wetering, Irfan Rahman, Willem I de Boer, Klaus F Rabe, and Pieter S Hiemstra PMCID: PMC1315328 TGF-β1 and serum both stimulate contraction but differentially affect apoptosis in 3D collagen gels Tetsu Kobayashi, Xiangde Liu, Hui Jung Kim, Tadashi Kohyama, Fu-Qiang Wen, Shinji Abe, Qiuhong Fang, Yun Kui Zhu, John R Spurzem, Peter Bitterman, and Stephen I Rennard PMCID: PMC1318462 Hyperresponsiveness to inhaled but not intravenous methacholine during acute respiratory syncytial virus infection in mice Rachel A Collins, Rosa C Gualano, Graeme R Zosky, Constance L Atkins, Debra J Turner, Giuseppe N Colasurdo, and Peter D Sly PMCID: PMC1325022 Biphasic effect of extracellular ATP on human and rat airways is due to multiple P2 purinoceptor activation Boutchi Mounkaïla, Roger Marthan, and Etienne Roux PMCID: PMC1325041 The safety and efficacy of inhaled dry powder mannitol as a bronchial provocation test for airway hyperresponsiveness: a phase 3 comparison study with hypertonic (4.5%) saline John D Brannan, Sandra D Anderson, Clare P Perry, Ruth Freed-Martens, Anna R Lassig, Brett Charlton, and the Aridol Study Group PMCID: PMC1326200 Variation in conserved non-coding sequences on chromosome 5q and susceptibility to asthma and atopy Joseph Donfack, Daniel H Schneider, Zheng Tan, Thorsten Kurz, Inna Dubchak, Kelly A Frazer, and Carole Ober PMCID: PMC1325232 SP-A binds alpha1-antitrypsin in vitro and reduces the association rate constant for neutrophil elastase Marina Gorrini, Anna Lupi, Paolo Iadarola, Conceição Dos Santos, Paola Rognoni, Daniele Dalzoppo, Natalia Carrabino, Ernesto Pozzi, Aldo Baritussio, and Maurizio Luisetti PMCID: PMC1343571 Cigarette smoke-induced pulmonary emphysema in scid-mice. Is the acquired immune system required? An I D'hulst, Tania Maes, Ken R Bracke, Ingel K Demedts, Kurt G Tournoy, Guy F Joos, and Guy G Brusselle PMCID: PMC1334210 Induction and regulation of matrix metalloproteinase-12in human airway smooth muscle cells Shaoping Xie, Razao Issa, Maria B Sukkar, Ute Oltmanns, Pankaj K Bhavsar, Alberto Papi, Gaetano Caramori, Ian Adcock, and K Fan Chung PMCID: PMC1363355 Pathophysiological classification of chronic rhinosinusitis James N Baraniuk and Hilda Maibach PMCID: PMC1343550 Relevance of human metapneumovirus in exacerbations of COPD G Rohde, I Borg, U Arinir, J Kronsbein, R Rausse, TT Bauer, A Bufe, and G Schultze-Werninghaus PMCID: PMC1334186 MMP-9, TIMP-1 and inflammatory cells in sputum from COPD patients during exacerbation PF Mercer, JK Shute, A Bhowmik, GC Donaldson, JA Wedzicha, and JA Warner PMCID: PMC1351193 Long-term air pollution exposure and living close to busy roads are associated with COPD in women Tamara Schikowski, Dorothea Sugiri, Ulrich Ranft, Ulrike Gehring, Joachim Heinrich, H-Erich Wichmann, and Ursula Krämer PMCID: PMC1352358 Greater risk of incident asthma cases in adults with Allergic Rhinitis and Effect of Allergen Immunotherapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study Riccardo Polosa, Wael K Al-Delaimy, Cristina Russo, Giovita Piccillo, and Maria Sarvà PMCID: PMC1351177 |
