Airwaves:

Airwaves

Wisia Wedzicha

Thorax 2009; 64: i.

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Editorials:

Smoke and dust get in your eyes: what does it mean in the workplace?

Maritta S Jaakkola

Thorax 2009; 64: 1-2. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.104778

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Beyond airflow limitation: another look at COPD

Massimo Pistolesi

Thorax 2009; 64: 2-4. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106674

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Statins for the treatment of asthma: a discovery well, dry hole or just snake oil

Bruce K Rubin

Thorax 2009; 64: 4-5. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106757

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Images in Thorax:

^99mTechnetium-labelled neutrophil scanning in pneumonia

P Ruparelia, K Szczepura, C Summers, A M Peters, and E R Chilvers

Thorax 2009; 64: 92. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.089573

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Asthma:

Ventilation heterogeneity in children with well controlled asthma with normal spirometry indicates residual airways disease

K A Macleod, A R Horsley, N J Bell, A P Greening, J A Innes, and S Cunningham

Thorax 2009; 64: 33-37.
Published Online First: 4 August 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.095018

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Genome-wide transcriptional profiling linked to social class in asthma

E Chen, G E Miller, H A Walker, J M Arevalo, C Y Sung, and S W Cole

Thorax 2009; 64: 38-43.
Published Online First: 10 November 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.095091

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Pravastatin attenuates allergic airway inflammation by suppressing antigen sensitisation, interleukin 17 production and antigen presentation in the lung

M Imamura, K Okunishi, H Ohtsu, K Nakagome, H Harada, R Tanaka, K Yamamoto, and M Dohi

Thorax 2009; 64: 44-49.
Published Online First: 3 October 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.094540

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Occupational rhinitis in workers investigated for occupational asthma

R Castano, D Gautrin, G Thériault, C Trudeau, H Ghezzo, and J-L Malo

Thorax 2009; 64: 50-54.
Published Online First: 3 October 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.102822

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Breathing exercises for asthma: a randomised controlled trial

M Thomas, R K McKinley, S Mellor, G Watkin, E Holloway, J Scullion, D E Shaw, A Wardlaw, D Price, and I Pavord

Thorax 2009; 64: 55-61.
Published Online First: 3 December 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.100867

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Paediatrics:

Effect of breastfeeding duration on lung function at age 10 years: a prospective birth cohort study

I U Ogbuanu, W Karmaus, S H Arshad, R J Kurukulaaratchy, and S Ewart

Thorax 2009; 64: 62-66.
Published Online First: 10 November 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.101543

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Occupational exposures and the risk of COPD: dusty trades revisited

P D Blanc, C Iribarren, L Trupin, G Earnest, P P Katz, J Balmes, S Sidney, and M D Eisner

Thorax 2009; 64: 6-12.
Published Online First: 4 August 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.099390

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Chronic endurance exercise induces quadriceps nitrosative stress in patients with severe COPD

E Barreiro, R Rabinovich, J Marin-Corral, J A Barberà, J Gea, and J Roca

Thorax 2009; 64: 13-19.
Published Online First: 3 October 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.105163

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Body mass index in male patients with COPD: correlation with low attenuation areas on CT

E Ogawa, Y Nakano, T Ohara, S Muro, T Hirai, S Sato, H Sakai, M Tsukino, D Kinose, M Nishioka, A Niimi, K Chin, P D Paré, and M Mishima

Thorax 2009; 64: 20-25.
Published Online First: 13 October 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.097543

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Enhanced pulmonary leptin expression in patients with severe COPD and asymptomatic smokers

J H J Vernooy, N E A Drummen, R J van Suylen, R H E Cloots, G M Möller, K R Bracke, S Zuyderduyn, M A Dentener, G G Brusselle, P S Hiemstra, and E F M Wouters

Thorax 2009; 64: 26-32.
Published Online First: 3 October 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.085423

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Lung cancer:

Comparison of gemcitabine and carboplatin versus cisplatin and etoposide for patients with poor-prognosis small cell lung cancer

S M Lee, L E James, W Qian, S Spiro, T Eisen, N H Gower, D R Ferry, D Gilligan, P G Harper, J Prendiville, M Hocking, and R M Rudd

Thorax 2009; 64: 75-80.
Published Online First: 11 September 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.093872

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Sleep-disordered breathing:

Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on systemic inflammation in patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised controlled trial

M Kohler, L Ayers, J C T Pepperell, K L Packwood, B Ferry, N Crosthwaite, S Craig, M M Siccoli, R J O Davies, and J R Stradling

Thorax 2009; 64: 67-73.
Published Online First: 11 September 2008. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.097931

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Review:

Neutrophils in cystic fibrosis

D G Downey, S C Bell, and J S Elborn

Thorax 2009; 64: 81-88. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.082388

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Case report:

Human and canine pulmonary Mycobacterium bovis infection in the same household: re-emergence of an old zoonotic threat?

D Shrikrishna, R de la Rua-Domenech, N H Smith, A Colloff, and I Coutts

Thorax 2009; 64: 89-91. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.106302

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Miscellanea:

An unusual cause of patchy ground-glass opacity

N Just, J Delourme, C Delattre, A Liesse, and F Steenhouwer

Thorax 2009; 64: 12. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.096875

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ANSWER

Thorax 2009; 64: 74. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.96875a

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Corrections:

Corrections

Thorax 2009; 64: 91. doi:10.1136/thx.2008.102947corr1

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Corrections

Thorax 2009; 64: 91.

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Corrections

Thorax 2009; 64: 91. doi:10.1136/thx.2007.088831corr1

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