2 Centre for Adolescent Health and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...

Introduction and objectives Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is associated with increased pulmonary vascular permeability. In the lung, transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4), a ...

Eosinophils are key effector cells in allergic diseases. Here we investigated Mcl-1 (an anti-apoptotic protein) in experimental allergic airway inflammation using transgenic overexpressing human Mcl-1 ...

1 Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK 2 Tuberculosis Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK ...

1 Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Background Recently, several proteins of the extracellular matrix have been characterised as active contributors to ...

Otago and Canterbury Respiratory Research Groups, Dunedin and Christchurch Schools of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand Dr D R Taylor, Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of ...

Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is defined by large numbers of neutrophils and associated damaging products in the airway. Delayed neutrophil apoptosis is described in CF although it is ...

Dr G G Lestringant, Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tawam Hospital, PO Box 15258, Al Ain, United Arab Emiratesgglest{at}emirates.net.ae Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK Dr Sophie D West, Sleep Unit, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Oxford OX3 ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash University Medical School, Melbourne 3181, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Monash ...

Background Whether inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in people with chronic ...