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Airwaves

  • Highlights from this issue

    • Andrew Bush,
    • Ian Pavord
    Thorax 2012;67:6 i-ii doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202088

Editorials

  • ‘To CT or not to CT? That is the question’: outcome surrogates for surveillance in childhood cystic fibrosis

    • Carolyn Young,
    • Catherine Owens
    Thorax 2012;67:6 471-472 Published Online First: 3 March 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201549

  • Pneumococcal capsular serotypes and lung infection

    • Jeremy Stuart Brown
    Thorax 2012;67:6 473-474 Published Online First: 12 March 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201739

  • Mesenchymal stem cell therapy in acute lung injury: is it time for a clinical trial?

    • Rob Mac Sweeney,
    • Daniel Francis McAuley
    Thorax 2012;67:6 475-476 Published Online First: 13 April 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201309

Original articles

Asthma

  • Original article: uPAR regulates bronchial epithelial repair in vitro and is elevated in asthmatic epithelium

    • Ceri E Stewart,
    • Hala S Nijmeh,
    • Christopher E Brightling,
    • Ian Sayers
    Thorax 2012;67:6 477-487 Published Online First: 3 December 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200508
    Open Access

  • Original article: The composition of house dust mite is critical for mucosal barrier dysfunction and allergic sensitisation

    • S Post,
    • M C Nawijn,
    • T L Hackett,
    • M Baranowska,
    • R Gras,
    • A J M van Oosterhout,
    • I H Heijink
    Thorax 2012;67:6 488-495 Published Online First: 13 December 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200606

Acute lung injury

  • Original article: Mesenchymal stem cells enhance recovery and repair following ventilator-induced lung injury in the rat

    • Gerard F Curley,
    • Mairead Hayes,
    • Bilal Ansari,
    • Georgina Shaw,
    • Aideen Ryan,
    • Frank Barry,
    • Timothy O'Brien,
    • Daniel O'Toole,
    • John G Laffey
    Thorax 2012;67:6 496-501 Published Online First: 21 November 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201059

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Original article: Clinical validity of plasma and urinary desmosine as biomarkers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    • Jeffrey T-J Huang,
    • Rekha Chaudhuri,
    • Osama Albarbarawi,
    • Alun Barton,
    • Christal Grierson,
    • Petra Rauchhaus,
    • Christopher J Weir,
    • Martina Messow,
    • Nicola Stevens,
    • Charles McSharry,
    • Giora Feuerstein,
    • Somnath Mukhopadhyay,
    • Jeffrey Brady,
    • Colin N A Palmer,
    • Douglas Miller,
    • Neil C Thomson
    Thorax 2012;67:6 502-508 Published Online First: 16 January 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200279
    Open Access

Cystic fibrosis

  • Original article: Progression of early structural lung disease in young children with cystic fibrosis assessed using CT

    • Lauren S Mott,
    • Judy Park,
    • Conor P Murray,
    • Catherine L Gangell,
    • Nicholas H de Klerk,
    • Philip J Robinson,
    • Colin F Robertson,
    • Sarath C Ranganathan,
    • Peter D Sly,
    • Stephen M Stick,
    • on behalf of AREST CF
    Thorax 2012;67:6 509-516 Published Online First: 26 December 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200912
    Editor's Choice

  • Original article: Impaired type I and type III interferon induction and rhinovirus control in human cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells

    • Marjolaine Vareille,
    • Elisabeth Kieninger,
    • Marco P Alves,
    • Brigitte S Kopf,
    • Alexander Möller,
    • Thomas Geiser,
    • Sebastian L Johnston,
    • Michael R Edwards,
    • Nicolas Regamey
    Thorax 2012;67:6 517-525 Published Online First: 2 January 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200405

Lung cancer

  • Original article: Positive pre-resection pleural lavage cytology is associated with increased risk of lung cancer recurrence in patients undergoing surgical resection: a meta-analysis of 4450 patients

    • Srdjan Saso,
    • Christopher Rao,
    • Hutan Ashrafian,
    • Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami,
    • Ara Darzi,
    • Thanos Athanasiou
    Thorax 2012;67:6 526-532 Published Online First: 27 January 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200424

Respiratory infection

  • Original article: Mesenchymal stem cells enhance survival and bacterial clearance in murine Escherichia coli pneumonia

    • Naveen Gupta,
    • Anna Krasnodembskaya,
    • Maria Kapetanaki,
    • Majd Mouded,
    • Xinping Tan,
    • Vladimir Serikov,
    • Michael A Matthay
    Thorax 2012;67:6 533-539 Published Online First: 16 January 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201176

  • Original article: Serotype prevalence in adults hospitalised with pneumococcal non-invasive community-acquired pneumonia

    • Thomas Bewick,
    • Carmen Sheppard,
    • Sonia Greenwood,
    • Mary Slack,
    • Caroline Trotter,
    • Robert George,
    • Wei Shen Lim
    Thorax 2012;67:6 540-545 Published Online First: 28 February 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201092

Reviews

  • Proposal for a systematic analysis of polygraphy or polysomnography for identifying and scoring abnormal events occurring during non-invasive ventilation

    • J Gonzalez-Bermejo,
    • C Perrin,
    • J P Janssens,
    • J L Pepin,
    • G Mroue,
    • P Léger,
    • B Langevin,
    • S Rouault,
    • C Rabec,
    • D Rodenstein,
    • on behalf of the SomnoNIV Group
    Thorax 2012;67:6 546-552 Published Online First: 22 October 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2010.142653

  • Mechanisms of neutrophil transmigration across the vascular endothelium in COPD

    • Jennie Gane,
    • Robert Stockley
    Thorax 2012;67:6 553-561 Published Online First: 4 May 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200088

PostScript

  • Correspondence: Pragmatic trials: how to adjust for the ‘Hawthorne effect’?

    • George N Konstantinou
    Thorax 2012;67:6 562 Published Online First: 23 August 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200657

  • Correspondence: Authors' response

    • Simone Hashimoto,
    • Peter J Sterk,
    • Elisabeth H Bel
    Thorax 2012;67:6 562 Published Online First: 23 August 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200870

Chest clinic

Image in Thorax

  • Images in Thorax: Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegener's)

    • Takayuki Takimoto,
    • Osamu Morimura,
    • Takako Inoue,
    • Haruko Terada,
    • Kinya Abe
    Thorax 2012;67:6 563-564 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/thx.2009.133496

Pulmonary puzzle

  • Pulmonary puzzle: All that wheezes is not asthma: the value of curves

    • Leigh M Seccombe,
    • Liam Polley,
    • Peter G Rogers,
    • Alvin J Ing
    Thorax 2012;67:6 564 Published Online First: 23 November 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201097

Basic science for the chest physician

  • Basic science for the chest physician: Mesenchymal stem cells

    • Sara Rankin
    Thorax 2012;67:6 565-566 Published Online First: 3 May 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201923

Miscellaneous

  • Journal club: Lebrikizumab may benefit a subset of patients with asthma

    • Sasiharan Sithamparanathan
    Thorax 2012;67:6 487 Published Online First: 25 November 2011 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201329

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