Table of contents

Original articles

Occupational lung disease

• Original article: A 37-year observation of mortality in Chinese chrysotile asbestos workers (21 September, 2011) Free

  Xiaorong Wang, Eiji Yano, Hong Qiu, Ignatius Yu, Midori N Courtice, L A Tse, Sihao Lin, Mianzhen Wang
• Original article: Occupational exposure to organic dust increases lung cancer risk in the general population (19 August, 2011) Free

  Susan Peters, Hans Kromhout, Ann C Olsson, Heinz-Erich Wichmann, Irene Brüske, Dario Consonni, Maria Teresa Landi, Neil Caporaso, Jack Siemiatycki, Lorenzo Richiardi, Dario Mirabelli, Lorenzo Simonato, Per Gustavsson, Nils Plato, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Wolfgang Ahrens, Hermann Pohlabeln, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, David Zaridze, Adrian Cassidy, Jolanta Lissowska, Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Peter Rudnai, Eleonora Fabianova, Francesco Forastiere, Vladimir Bencko, Lenka Foretova, Vladimir Janout, Isabelle Stücker, Rodica Stanescu Dumitru, Simone Benhamou, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Benjamin Kendzia, Beate Pesch, Kurt Straif, Thomas Brüning, Roel Vermeulen

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Dyspnoea severity and pneumonia as predictors of in-hospital mortality and early readmission in acute exacerbations of COPD (6 September, 2011) Free

  J Steer, E M Norman, O A Afolabi, G J Gibson, S C Bourke
• Original article: Gene expression networks in COPD: microRNA and mRNA regulation (22 September, 2011) Free

  Michael E Ezzie, Melissa Crawford, Ji-Hoon Cho, Robert Orellana, Shile Zhang, Richard Gelinas, Kara Batte, Lianbo Yu, Gerard Nuovo, David Galas, Philip Diaz, Kai Wang, S Patrick Nana-Sinkam

Respiratory infection

• Original article: Nursing-home-acquired pneumonia in Germany: an 8-year prospective multicentre study (5 November, 2011) Free

  Santiago Ewig, Benjamin Klapdor, Mathias W Pletz, Gernot Rohde, Hartwig Schütte, Tom Schaberg, Torsten T Bauer, Tobias Welte, for the CAPNETZ study group

Interstitial lung disease

• Original article:

  Proteasomal inhibition after injury prevents fibrosis by modulating TGF-β₁ signalling

  (15 September, 2011) Free

  Gökhan M Mutlu, G R Scott Budinger, Minghua Wu, Anna P Lam, Aaron Zirk, Stephanie Rivera, Daniela Urich, Sergio E Chiarella, Leonard H T Go, Asish K Ghosh, Moises Selman, Annie Pardo, John Varga, David W Kamp, Navdeep S Chandel, Jacob Iasha Sznajder, Manu Jain
• Original article: Sphingosine-1-phosphate is increased in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and mediates epithelial to mesenchymal transition (21 November, 2011) Free

  Javier Milara, Rafael Navarro, Gustavo Juan, Teresa Peiró, Adela Serrano, Mercedes Ramón, Esteban Morcillo, Julio Cortijo

Exhaled markers

• Original article: Alveolar concentration of nitric oxide predicts pulmonary function deterioration in scleroderma (24 October, 2011) Free

  Kiet Phong Tiev, Thong Hua-Huy, Adrien Kettaneh, Yannick Allanore, Nhat-Nam Le-Dong, Sy Duong-Quy, Jean Cabane, Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Distinct patterns of inflammation in the airway lumen and bronchial mucosa of children with cystic fibrosis (18 October, 2011) Free

  Nicolas Regamey, Lemonia Tsartsali, Tom N Hilliard, Oliver Fuchs, Hui-Leng Tan, Jie Zhu, Yu-Sheng Qiu, Eric W F W Alton, Peter K Jeffery, Andrew Bush, Jane C Davies