Table of contents

Original articles

Asthma

• Original article: uPAR regulates bronchial epithelial repair in vitro and is elevated in asthmatic epithelium (3 December, 2011)

  Ceri E Stewart, Hala S Nijmeh, Christopher E Brightling, Ian Sayers
• Original article: The composition of house dust mite is critical for mucosal barrier dysfunction and allergic sensitisation (13 December, 2011)

  S Post, M C Nawijn, T L Hackett, M Baranowska, R Gras, A J M van Oosterhout, I H Heijink

Acute lung injury

• Original article: Mesenchymal stem cells enhance recovery and repair following ventilator-induced lung injury in the rat (21 November, 2011)

  Gerard F Curley, Mairead Hayes, Bilal Ansari, Georgina Shaw, Aideen Ryan, Frank Barry, Timothy O'Brien, Daniel O'Toole, John G Laffey

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Clinical validity of plasma and urinary desmosine as biomarkers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (16 January, 2012)

  Jeffrey T-J Huang, Rekha Chaudhuri, Osama Albarbarawi, Alun Barton, Christal Grierson, Petra Rauchhaus, Christopher J Weir, Martina Messow, Nicola Stevens, Charles McSharry, Giora Feuerstein, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Jeffrey Brady, Colin N A Palmer, Douglas Miller, Neil C Thomson

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Progression of early structural lung disease in young children with cystic fibrosis assessed using CT (26 December, 2011) Free

  Lauren S Mott, Judy Park, Conor P Murray, Catherine L Gangell, Nicholas H de Klerk, Philip J Robinson, Colin F Robertson, Sarath C Ranganathan, Peter D Sly, Stephen M Stick, on behalf of AREST CF
• Original article: Impaired type I and type III interferon induction and rhinovirus control in human cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells (2 January, 2012)

  Marjolaine Vareille, Elisabeth Kieninger, Marco P Alves, Brigitte S Kopf, Alexander Möller, Thomas Geiser, Sebastian L Johnston, Michael R Edwards, Nicolas Regamey

Lung cancer

• Original article: Positive pre-resection pleural lavage cytology is associated with increased risk of lung cancer recurrence in patients undergoing surgical resection: a meta-analysis of 4450 patients (27 January, 2012)

  Srdjan Saso, Christopher Rao, Hutan Ashrafian, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Ara Darzi, Thanos Athanasiou

Respiratory infection

• Original article:

  Mesenchymal stem cells enhance survival and bacterial clearance in murine Escherichia coli pneumonia

  (16 January, 2012)

  Naveen Gupta, Anna Krasnodembskaya, Maria Kapetanaki, Majd Mouded, Xinping Tan, Vladimir Serikov, Michael A Matthay
• Original article: Serotype prevalence in adults hospitalised with pneumococcal non-invasive community-acquired pneumonia (28 February, 2012)

  Thomas Bewick, Carmen Sheppard, Sonia Greenwood, Mary Slack, Caroline Trotter, Robert George, Wei Shen Lim