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Table of contents

February 2008 - Volume 63 - 2

Thorax: 63 (2)

Editorials

Is inflammation good, bad or irrelevant for skeletal muscles in COPD? (28 January, 2008)
Don D Sin, W Darlene Reid
Lung clearance index in CF: a sensitive marker of lung disease severity (28 January, 2008)
Jane C Davies, Steve Cunningham, Eric W F W Alton, J A Innes
Ventilation inhomogeneities assessed by the multibreath washout (MBW) technique (28 January, 2008)
Philipp Latzin, Cindy Thamrin, Richard Kraemer

Airwaves

Airwaves (28 January, 2008) Free
Wisia Wedzicha

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cytokine profile in quadriceps muscles of patients with severe COPD (17 September, 2007)
E Barreiro, A M W J Schols, M I Polkey, J B Galdiz, H R Gosker, E B Swallow, C Coronell, J Gea
Bronchial mucosal dendritic cells in smokers and ex-smokers with COPD: an electron microscopic study (17 September, 2007)
A V Rogers, E Ädelroth, K Hattotuwa, A Dewar, P K Jeffery
Assessing the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation on functional status in COPD (27 September, 2007)
L Laviolette, J Bourbeau, S Bernard, Y Lacasse, V Pepin, M-J Breton, M Baltzan, M Rouleau, F Maltais
Counting, analysing and reporting exacerbations of COPD in randomised controlled trials (16 August, 2007)
S D Aaron, D Fergusson, G B Marks, S Suissa, K L Vandemheen, S Doucette, F Maltais, J F Bourbeau, R S Goldstein, M Balter, D O’Donnell, M FitzGerald

Lung alert

Miscellanea

Role for Major Vault Protein in the innate immunity of respiratory epithelium (28 January, 2008)
D Jenkins
Neuropilin 1 is important in NSCLC (28 January, 2008)
Tim Jones
A new treatment proposed for lung transplant rejection (28 January, 2008)
Ghassan El-Sayed
Extracellular ATP in asthma airway inflammation (28 January, 2008)
D Parekh
Smoking-induced emphysema is an autoimmune process (28 January, 2008)
Chuan-Gee Choo

Pulmonary puzzle

Miscellanea

A hint of calcium (28 January, 2008)
S Faruqi, R Regester, M Thirumaran, S Williams
ANSWER (28 January, 2008)

Cystic fibrosis

Multiple-breath inert gas washout and spirometry versus structural lung disease in cystic fibrosis (3 August, 2007)
P M Gustafsson, P A De Jong, H A W M Tiddens, A Lindblad
Lung clearance index is a sensitive, repeatable and practical measure of airways disease in adults with cystic fibrosis (3 August, 2007)
A R Horsley, P M Gustafsson, K A Macleod, C Saunders, A P Greening, D J Porteous, J C Davies, S Cunningham, E W F W Alton, J A Innes

Asthma

Recombinant human deoxyribonuclease for the treatment of acute asthma in children (3 August, 2007)
R Boogaard, F Smit, R Schornagel, A A P H Vaessen-Verberne, J M Kouwenberg, M Hekkelaan, T Hendriks, S W W Feith, W C J Hop, J C de Jongste, P J F M Merkus

Acute lung injury

Protection from experimental ventilator-induced acute lung injury by IL-1 receptor blockade (27 September, 2007)
J A Frank, J-F Pittet, C Wray, M A Matthay

Respiratory infection

Development and evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of HIV-infected patients
(10 August, 2007)
J F Huggett, M S Taylor, G Kocjan, H E Evans, S Morris-Jones, V Gant, T Novak, A M Costello, A Zumla, R F Miller

Lung cancer

The epidemiology and treatment of mesothelioma in South East England 1985–2002 (3 August, 2007) Free
V Mak, E Davies, V Putcha, B Choodari-Oskooei, H Møller

Paediatrics

Heightened bronchial hyperresponsiveness in the absence of heightened atopy in children with current wheezing and low income status (27 September, 2007)
J Mallol, J A Castro-Rodriguez, E Cortez, V Aguirre, P Aguilar, L Barrueto

Environmental exposure

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and sensitisation in children (18 December, 2007)
E Lannerö, M Wickman, M van Hage, A Bergström, G Pershagen, L Nordvall

Case Report

Syndrome of pleural and retrosternal “bridging” fibrosis and retroperitoneal fibrosis in patients with asbestos exposure (28 January, 2008)
V Cottin, P-Y Brillet, F Combarnous, F Duperron, H Nunes, J-F Cordier

Review series

Exacerbations in cystic fibrosis: 3 · Management (28 January, 2008)
A Smyth, J S Elborn

Letters

Eosinophil cationic protein is not only a distinctive eosinophil proteinAuthors’ reply (28 January, 2008)
J Monteseirín, A Vega
Authors’ reply (28 January, 2008)
Y Qiu, P K Jeffery

Images in Thorax

Multifocal pneumocyte hyperplasia in tuberous sclerosis (28 January, 2008)
A M Nagar, H Seong Teh, R Nee Khoo, A C Morani, K Vrishni, J Raghuram

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