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Original articles

Acute lung injury

• Low levels of tissue factor lead to alveolar haemorrhage, potentiating murine acute lung injury and oxidative stress (2 October, 2012)

  Julie A Bastarache, Sara C Sebag, Jennifer K Clune, Brandon S Grove, William E Lawson, David R Janz, L Jackson Roberts, Ryszard Dworski, Nigel Mackman, Lorraine B Ware

Asthma

• Prediction of peak flow values followed by feedback improves perception of lung function and adherence to inhaled corticosteroids in children with asthma (14 November, 2012) Free

  Jonathan M Feldman, Haley Kutner, Lynne Matte, Michelle Lupkin, Dara Steinberg, Kimberly Sidora-Arcoleo, Denise Serebrisky, Karen Warman
• Multifaceted allergen avoidance during infancy reduces asthma during childhood with the effect persisting until age 18 years (2 August, 2012)

  Martha Scott, Graham Roberts, Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy, Sharon Matthews, Andrea Nove, S Hasan Arshad
• The at-risk registers in severe asthma (ARRISA) study: a cluster-randomised controlled trial examining effectiveness and costs in primary care (31 August, 2012)

  Jane Rebecca Smith, Michael J Noble, Stanley Musgrave, Jamie Murdoch, Gill M Price, Garry R Barton, Jennifer Windley, Richard Holland, Brian DW Harrison, Amanda Howe, David B Price, Ian Harvey, Andrew M Wilson
• Epithelial eotaxin-2 and eotaxin-3 expression: relation to asthma severity, luminal eosinophilia and age at onset (26 September, 2012)

  John M Coleman, Chetan Naik, Fernando Holguin, Anuradha Ray, Prabir Ray, John B Trudeau, Sally E Wenzel

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Increased circulating endothelial microparticles in COPD patients: a potential biomarker for COPD exacerbation susceptibility (27 July, 2012)

  Toru Takahashi, Seiichi Kobayashi, Naoya Fujino, Takaya Suzuki, Chiharu Ota, Mei He, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Satoshi Suzuki, Masaru Yanai, Shin Kurosawa, Mutsuo Yamaya, Hiroshi Kubo
• Changes in prevalence and load of airway bacteria using quantitative PCR in stable and exacerbated COPD (3 August, 2012)

  Davinder S Garcha, Sarah J Thurston, Anant R C Patel, Alexander J Mackay, James J P Goldring, Gavin C Donaldson, Timothy D McHugh, Jadwiga A Wedzicha

Sleep disordered breathing

• Cardiometabolic changes after continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised sham-controlled study (5 May, 2012)

  Camilla M Hoyos, Roo Killick, Brendon J Yee, Craig L Phillips, Ronald R Grunstein, Peter Y Liu
• Continuous positive airway pressure improves sleepiness but not calculated vascular risk in patients with minimally symptomatic obstructive sleep apnoea: the MOSAIC randomised controlled trial (30 October, 2012)

  Sonya Elizabeth Craig, Malcolm Kohler, Debby Nicoll, Daniel J Bratton, Andrew Nunn, Robert Davies, John Stradling