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Research Article

• What is the role of the eosinophil? (1 March, 1990)

  P Venge
• Tobacco and the Third World. (1 March, 1990)

  J Crofton
• Case-control study of prescribed fenoterol and death from asthma in New Zealand, 1977-81. (1 March, 1990)

  N Pearce, J Grainger, M Atkinson, J Crane, C Burgess, C Culling, H Windom, R Beasley
• Why are hospital admission and mortality rates for childhood asthma higher in New Zealand than in the United Kingdom? (1 March, 1990)

  E A Mitchell, H R Anderson, P Freeling, P T White
• Nutritional state of patients with lung cancer undergoing thoracotomy. (1 March, 1990)

  Y Bashir, T R Graham, A Torrance, G J Gibson, P A Corris
• Nosocomial lower respiratory tract infections in surgical wards. (1 March, 1990)

  W J Kinnear, R G Finch, R Pilkington, J T Macfarlane
• Assessment of reversibility of airway obstruction in patients with chronic obstructive airways disease. (1 March, 1990)

  M Nisar, M Walshaw, J E Earis, M G Pearson, P M Calverley
• Long term domiciliary oxygen treatment for chronic respiratory failure reviewed. (1 March, 1990)

  S V Baudouin, J C Waterhouse, T Tahtamouni, J A Smith, J Baxter, P Howard
• Does the outcome of the tidal breathing and dosimeter methods of assessing bronchial responsiveness in children with asthma depend on age? (1 March, 1990)

  D Birnie, G W thoe Schwartzenberg, W C Hop, E E van Essen-Zandvliet, K F Kerrebijn
• Occupational asthma due to tea dust. (1 March, 1990)

  A Cartier, J L Malo
• Cough threshold after upper abdominal surgery. (1 March, 1990)

  J P Dilworth, J C Pounsford, R J White
• Unilateral post-tuberculous lung destruction: the left bronchus syndrome. (1 March, 1990)

  M Ashour, L Pandya, A Mezraqji, W Qutashat, M Desouki, N al-Sharif, A al-Jaboori, A Marie
• Potassium channels and airway function: new therapeutic prospects. (1 March, 1990)

  J L Black, P J Barnes
• AIDS and the lung. 7. Treatment of lung disease in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. (1 March, 1990)

  D M Mitchell, M A Johnson
• Molecular biology and respiratory disease. 3. Evaluation of nucleolar organiser regions in pulmonary pathology. (1 March, 1990)

  M J Egan, J Crocker
• Chickenpox pneumonia: an association with pregnancy. (1 March, 1990)

  S J Rogerson, F J Nye, N J Beeching
• Sedation for fibreoptic bronchoscopy. (1 March, 1990)

  A C Davidson, R Leach, N T Bateman
• Postpneumonectomy pulmonary oedema. (1 March, 1990)

  M Margolis