Table of contents

Original article

• Obesity is a risk for asthma and wheeze but not airway hyperresponsiveness (1 January, 2001)

  L M Schachter, C M Salome, J K Peat, A J Woolcock
• Does passive smoking increase the frequency of health service contacts in children with asthma? (1 January, 2001)

  I K Crombie, A Wright, L Irvine, R A Clark, P W Slane
• Glutathione in induced sputum of healthy individuals and patients with asthma (1 January, 2001)

  N Dauletbaev, J Rickmann, K Viel, R Buhl, T-O-F Wagner, J Bargon
• Enhancement of goblet cell hyperplasia and airway hyperresponsiveness by salbutamol in a rat model of atopic asthma (1 January, 2001)

  A Kamachi, M Munakata, Y Nasuhara, M Nishimura, Y Ohtsuka, M Amishima, T Takahashi, Y Homma, Y Kawakami
• Ultrastructural examination of bronchial biopsy specimens from children with moderate asthma (1 January, 2001)

  H Çokuğraş, N Akçakaya, I˙ Seçkin, Y Camcıoğlu, N Sarımurat, F Aksoy
• Sputum and plasma endothelin-1 levels in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 January, 2001)

  M Roland, A Bhowmik, R J Sapsford, T A R Seemungal, D J Jeffries, T D Warner, J A Wedzicha
• Relationship between airway inflammation and the frequency of exacerbations in patients with smoking related COPD (1 January, 2001)

  S Gompertz, D L Bayley, S L Hill, R A Stockley
• Methacholine responsiveness in infants assessed with low frequency forced oscillation and forced expiration techniques (1 January, 2001)

  G L Hall, Z Hantos, J H Wildhaber, F Peták, P D Sly
• Effects of β-carotene supplementation for six months on clinical and laboratory parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (1 January, 2001)

  S Renner, R Rath, P Rust, S Lehr, Th Frischer, I Elmadfa, I Eichler
• Association of α₁-antichymotrypsin deficiency with milder lung disease in patients with cystic fibrosis

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  R Mahadeva, L Sharples, R I Ross-Russell, A K Webb, D Bilton, D A Lomas
• Prediction of pulmonary complications after a lobectomy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (1 January, 2001)

  H Uramoto, R Nakanishi, Y Fujino, H Imoto, M Takenoyama, T Yoshimatsu, T Oyama, T Osaki, K Yasumoto