Table of contents

Original articles

Cystic fibrosis

• Early antibiotic treatment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa eradication in patients with cystic fibrosis: a randomised multicentre study comparing two different protocols

  (29 February, 2012)

  Giovanni Taccetti, Elisa Bianchini, Lisa Cariani, Roberto Buzzetti, Diana Costantini, Francesca Trevisan, Lucia Zavataro, Silvia Campana
• Understanding the natural progression in %FEV₁ decline in patients with cystic fibrosis: a longitudinal study

  (3 May, 2012)

  David Taylor-Robinson, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Hanne Vebert Olesen, Tania Pressler, Rosalind L Smyth, Peter Diggle
• Long-term cultivation-independent microbial diversity analysis demonstrates that bacterial communities infecting the adult cystic fibrosis lung show stability and resilience (15 June, 2012)

  Franziska Anne Stressmann, Geraint B Rogers, Christopher J van der Gast, Peter Marsh, Louic S Vermeer, Mary P Carroll, Lucas Hoffman, Thomas W V Daniels, Nilesh Patel, Benjamin Forbes, Kenneth Deans Bruce
• Lung function is abnormal in 3-month-old infants with cystic fibrosis diagnosed by newborn screening (29 June, 2012) Free

  Ah-Fong Hoo, Lena P Thia, The Thanh Diem Nguyen, Andrew Bush, Jane Chudleigh, Sooky Lum, Deeba Ahmed, Ian Balfour-Lynn, Siobhan B Carr, Richard J Chavasse, Kate L Costeloe, John Price, Anu Shankar, Colin Wallis, Hilary A Wyatt, Angela Wade, Janet Stocks, on behalf of the London Cystic Fibrosis Collaboration (LCFC)
• Progress in cystic fibrosis and the CF Therapeutics Development Network (7 September, 2012)

  Steven M Rowe, Drucy S Borowitz, Jane L Burns, John P Clancy, Scott H Donaldson, George Retsch-Bogart, Scott D Sagel, Bonnie W Ramsey

Cough

• Transient receptor potential channels mediate the tussive response to prostaglandin E₂ and bradykinin

  (12 June, 2012)

  Megan Grace, Mark A Birrell, Eric Dubuis, Sarah A Maher, Maria G Belvisi

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among residents of an historically industrialised area (28 June, 2012)

  Anthony C Darby, Judith C Waterhouse, Vivien Stevens, Clare G Billings, Catherine G Billings, Clare M Burton, Charlotte Young, Jeremy Wight, Paul D Blanc, David Fishwick

Respiratory infection

• Cigarette smoke and platelet-activating factor receptor dependent adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to lower airway cells

  (1 May, 2012)

  Jonathan Grigg, Haydn Walters, Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, Richard Wood-Baker, David W Reid, Cang-Bao Xu, Lars Edvinsson, Mathieu C Morissette, Martin R Stämpfli, Michael Kirwan, Lee Koh, Reetika Suri, Naseem Mushtaq

Smoking

• Smoking, acute mountain sickness and altitude acclimatisation: a cohort study (12 June, 2012)

  Tian-Yi Wu, Shou-Quan Ding, Jin-Liang Liu, Jian-Hou Jia, Zuo-Chun Chai, Rui-Chen Dai, Ji-Zhui Zhao, Qi De Tang, Bengt Kayser

Sleep

• The effect of continuous positive airway pressure usage on sleepiness in obstructive sleep apnoea: real effects or expectation of benefit? (26 May, 2012)

  Megan R Crawford, Delwyn J Bartlett, Steven R Coughlin, Craig L Phillips, Alister M Neill, Colin A Espie, George C Dungan, John P H Wilding, Peter M A Calverley, Ronald R Grunstein, Nathaniel S Marshall