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Editorials

Rethinking TB screening: politics, practicalities and the press (7 July, 2010)
J Moore-Gillon, Peter D O Davies, L Peter Ormerod
Live and let die: is neutrophil apoptosis defective in severe asthma? (4 August, 2010)
Helen Parfrey, Neda Farahi, Linsey Porter, Edwin R Chilvers
British Thoracic Society Pleural Disease Guidelines - 2010 update (4 August, 2010)
Nick Maskell

Asthma

Altered matrix production in the distal airways of individuals with asthma (4 August, 2010)
Kristian Nihlberg, Annika Andersson-Sjöland, Ellen Tufvesson, Jonas S Erjefält, Leif Bjermer, Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson
Sex-specific associations between cortisol and birth weight in pregnancies complicated by asthma are not due to differential glucocorticoid receptor expression (13 July, 2010)
Nicolette A Hodyl, Hayley Wyper, Annette Osei-Kumah, Naomi Scott, Vanessa E Murphy, Peter Gibson, Roger Smith, Vicki L Clifton
Prosurvival activity for airway neutrophils in severe asthma (4 August, 2010)
Mohib Uddin, Guangmin Nong, Jonathan Ward, Grégory Seumois, Lynne R Prince, Susan J Wilson, Victoria Cornelius, Gordon Dent, Ratko Djukanović
Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 genes influence susceptibility to adverse effects of traffic-related air pollution on childhood asthma (4 August, 2010)
M Kerkhof, D S Postma, B Brunekreef, N E Reijmerink, A H Wijga, J C de Jongste, U Gehring, G H Koppelman

Respiratory infection

Risk of invasive pneumococcal infections among working age adults with asthma (4 August, 2010)
Peter Klemets, Outi Lyytikäinen, Petri Ruutu, Jukka Ollgren, Tarja Kaijalainen, Maija Leinonen, J Pekka Nuorti
Quorum sensing-dependent virulence during Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonisation and pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients
(4 August, 2010)
Thilo Köhler, Raphael Guanella, Jean Carlet, Christian van Delden

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in patients with COPD (4 August, 2010)
Martine Hoogendoorn, Talitha L Feenstra, Rudolf T Hoogenveen, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken
Cardiovascular events in patients with COPD: TORCH Study results (4 August, 2010)
Peter M A Calverley, Julie A Anderson, Bartolome Celli, Gary T Ferguson, Christine Jenkins, Paul W Jones, Courtney Crim, Lisa R Willits, Julie C Yates, Jørgen Vestbo

Sleep disordered breathing

The effect of mandibular advancement on upper airway structure in obstructive sleep apnoea (4 August, 2010)
Andrew S L Chan, Kate Sutherland, Richard J Schwab, Biao Zeng, Peter Petocz, Richard W W Lee, M Ali Darendeliler, Peter A Cistulli

Interstitial lung disease

NOX4/NADPH oxidase expression is increased in pulmonary fibroblasts from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and mediates TGFβ1-induced fibroblast differentiation into myofibroblasts (4 August, 2010)
Nadia Amara, Delphine Goven, Fabienne Prost, Rachel Muloway, Bruno Crestani, Jorge Boczkowski

Smoking

The effect of cigarette smoking on asthma control during exacerbations in pregnant women (13 July, 2010) Free
Vanessa E Murphy, Vicki L Clifton, Peter G Gibson

Case report

SMAD4 mutation and the combined syndrome of juvenile polyposis syndrome and hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
(4 August, 2010)
Nithya K Iyer, Carol A Burke, Brandie H Leach, Joseph G Parambil

Review

Single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal (27 June, 2010)
Kenneth R Chapman, Neil C Barnes, Andrew P Greening, Paul W Jones, S Pedersen

Miscellanea

Clinical biomarkers in resectable NSCLC (4 August, 2010)
Burhan Khan
CPAP can be considered as an alternative to intubation and surfactant treatment in extremely preterm infants (4 August, 2010)
J L Bacon

Images in Thorax

Benign intercostal schwannoma mimicking a solitary metastasis from lung cancer (7 June, 2010)
Hee Moon, Seoung Ju Park, So Ri Kim, Ho Sung Park, Yong Chul Lee

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Table of contents

August 2010 - Volume 65 - 8

Editorials

Asthma

Respiratory infection

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Sleep disordered breathing

Interstitial lung disease

Smoking

Case report

Review

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

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Table of contents

August 2010 - Volume 65 - 8

Editorials

Asthma

Respiratory infection

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Sleep disordered breathing

Interstitial lung disease

Smoking

Case report

Review

Miscellanea

Images in Thorax

Issue Information