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Original articles

• The prevalence of aspirin intolerant asthma (AIA) in Australian asthmatic patients (1 July, 2002)

  H Vally, M L Taylor, P J Thompson
• Contrasting effects of allergen challenge on airway responsiveness to cysteinyl leukotriene D₄ and methacholine in mild asthma

  (1 July, 2002)

  R I Ketchell, M D'Amato, M W Jensen, B J O'Connor
• Association of body mass index with the development of methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness in men: the Normative Aging Study (1 July, 2002)

  A A Litonjua, D Sparrow, J C Celedon, D DeMolles, S T Weiss
• Nitric oxide in chronic airway inflammation in children: diagnostic use and pathophysiological significance (1 July, 2002)

  I Narang, R Ersu, N M Wilson, A Bush
• Increased levels of the chemokines GROα and MCP-1 in sputum samples from patients with COPD (1 July, 2002)

  S L Traves, S V Culpitt, R E K Russell, P J Barnes, L E Donnelly
• Relationship between nutritional status and lung function in cystic fibrosis: cross sectional and longitudinal analyses from the German CF quality assurance (CFQA) project (1 July, 2002)

  G Steinkamp, B Wiedemann
• Prevalence of sleep apnoea and snoring in hypertensive men: a population based study (1 July, 2002)

  C Sjöström, E Lindberg, A Elmasry, A Hägg, K Svärdsudd, C Janson
• Mid term effects of pulmonary thromboendarterectomy on clinical and cardiopulmonary function status (1 July, 2002)

  M C Zoia, A M D'Armini, M Beccaria, A Corsico, P Fulgoni, C Klersy, F Piovella, M Viganò, I Cerveri
• Diaphragm plication following phrenic nerve injury: a comparison of paediatric and adult patients (1 July, 2002)

  D A Simansky, M Paley, Y Refaely, A Yellin
• Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in London 1995–7 showing low rate of active transmission (1 July, 2002)

  H Maguire, J W Dale, T D McHugh, P D Butcher, S H Gillespie, A Costetsos, H Al-Ghusein, R Holland, A Dickens, L Marston, P Wilson, R Pitman, D Strachan, F A Drobniewski, D K Banerjee
• Raised plasma concentrations of α-defensins in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (1 July, 2002)

  H Mukae, H Iiboshi, M Nakazato, T Hiratsuka, M Tokojima, K Abe, J Ashitani, J Kadota, S Matsukura, S Kohno
• P-selectin upregulation in bleomycin induced lung injury in rats: effect of N-acetyl-l-cysteine

  (1 July, 2002)

  A Serrano-Mollar, D Closa, J Cortijo, E J Morcillo, N Prats, M Gironella, J Panés, J Roselló-Catafau, O Bulbena