Table of contents

Original articles

Airway biology

• Original article: 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 promotes CD200 expression by human peripheral and airway-resident T cells (14 February, 2012) Free

  Sarah Dimeloe, David F Richards, Zoe L Urry, Atul Gupta, Victoria Stratigou, Sophie Farooque, Sejal Saglani, Andrew Bush, Catherine M Hawrylowicz

Asthma

• Original article: Allergic rhinitis is associated with poor asthma control in children with asthma (2 January, 2012) Free

  Eric P de Groot, Anke Nijkamp, Eric J Duiverman, Paul L P Brand
• Original article:

  Combined Haemophilus influenzae respiratory infection and allergic airways disease drives chronic infection and features of neutrophilic asthma

  (3 March, 2012) Free

  Ama-Tawiah Essilfie, Jodie L Simpson, Margaret L Dunkley, Lucy C Morgan, Brian G Oliver, Peter G Gibson, Paul S Foster, Philip M Hansbro

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Original article: Sex, susceptibility to smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the effect of different diagnostic criteria. Analysis of the Health Survey for England (1 March, 2012) Free

  Rachel E Jordan, Martin R Miller, Kin-bong Hubert Lam, K K Cheng, Jennifer Marsh, Peymané Adab
• Original article: Systemic elastin degradation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (28 February, 2012) Free

  John D Maclay, David A McAllister, Roberto Rabinovich, Imran Haq, Scott Maxwell, Stephen Hartland, Martin Connell, John T Murchison, Edwin J R van Beek, Robert D Gray, Nicholas L Mills, William MacNee
• Original article: Direct visualisation of collateral ventilation in COPD with hyperpolarised gas MRI (27 January, 2012) Free

  Helen Marshall, Martin H Deppe, Juan Parra-Robles, Susan Hillis, Catherine G Billings, Smitha Rajaram, Andrew Swift, Sam R Miller, Joanna H Watson, Jan Wolber, David A Lipson, Rod Lawson, Jim M Wild

Cystic fibrosis

• Original article: Comparing the American and European diagnostic guidelines for cystic fibrosis: same disease, different language? (15 April, 2012) Free

  Chee Y Ooi, Annie Dupuis, Lynda Ellis, Keith Jarvi, Sheelagh Martin, Tanja Gonska, Ruslan Dorfman, Paul Kortan, Melinda Solomon, Elizabeth Tullis, Peter R Durie

Epidemiology

• Original article: Gender differences in prevalence, diagnosis and incidence of allergic and non-allergic asthma: a population-based cohort (14 February, 2012) Free

  Bénédicte Leynaert, Jordi Sunyer, Raquel Garcia-Esteban, Cecilie Svanes, Deborah Jarvis, Isa Cerveri, Julia Dratva, Thorarinn Gislason, Joachim Heinrich, Christer Janson, Nino Kuenzli, Roberto de Marco, Ernst Omenaas, Chantal Raherison, Francisco Gómez Real, Matthias Wjst, Elisabeth Zemp, Mahmoud Zureik, Peter G J Burney, Josep M Anto, Françoise Neukirch

Tuberculosis

• Original article: Factors contributing to the high prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a study from China (8 March, 2012) Free

  Libo Liang, Qunhong Wu, Lijun Gao, Yanhua Hao, Chaojie Liu, Yanguang Xie, Hong Sun, Xinglu Yan, Fabin Li, Honghai Li, Hongxia Fang, Ning Ning, Yu Cui, Liyuan Han

Sleep disordered breathing

• Original article: Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on coagulability in obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised, placebo-controlled crossover study (14 February, 2012) Free

  Craig L Phillips, Bradley J McEwen, Marie-Christine Morel-Kopp, Brendon J Yee, David R Sullivan, Christopher M Ward, Geoffrey H Tofler, Ronald R Grunstein