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Serum carotenoids, vitamins A and E, and 8 year lung function decline in a general population
Background: Oxidative stress is thought to have a major role in the pathogenesis of airway obstruction. A study was undertaken to determine whether subjects with low levels of antioxidants (serum ...
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M11 The use of asthma care bundle proformas can improve quality of care in acute asthma admissions
Introduction Despite the introduction of dedicated asthma services and targeted therapies, asthma exacerbations remain a common cause of hospital admission with significant utilisation of health care ...
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Expression of protease activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) in central airways of smokers and non-smokers
8 Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Section of Occupational Medicine, University of Padova, Italy 9 Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Radiology, Section of Respiratory ...
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P216 Impact of Tachycardia and New Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Exacerbations of COPD
Introduction and Objectives Cardiac arrhythmias are regularly found in patients with COPD, with higher frequencies reported during exacerbations. We wished to examine the impact of tachycardia and new ...
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Non-neoplastic pulmonary lymphoid lesions
aDepartment of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 6825 N W 16th Street, Bld 54, Rm M003B, Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA, bDepartment of Thoracic Radiology, ...
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Induction of ferroptosis-like cell death of eosinophils exerts synergistic effects with glucocorticoids in allergic airway inflammation
Introduction Eosinophils are critical in allergic disorders, and promoting eosinophil death effectively attenuates allergic airway inflammation. Ferroptosis is a recently described novel form of cell ...
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Psychometric validation of the needs assessment tool: progressive disease in interstitial lung disease
The inter-rater/test–retest reliability and construct validity of a palliative care needs assessment tool in interstitial lung disease (NAT:PD-ILD) were tested ...
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Highly discordant T cell responses in individuals with recent exposure to household tuberculosis
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...
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Use of non-invasive haemodynamic measurements to detect treatment response in precapillary pulmonary hypertension
Background Haemodynamic measurements may be superior to the 6-min walk distance (6MWD) as outcome measures in pulmonary hypertension (PH) as they are directly linked to the mechanisms of disease and ...
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Thoracoscopic fluorescence diagnosis (TFD) of pleural malignancies: experimental studies
1 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg ...
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IL-25 drives remodelling in allergic airways disease induced by house dust mite
Background Overexpression of the transforming growth factor β family signalling molecule smad2 in the airway epithelium provokes enhanced allergen-induced airway remodelling in mice, concomitant with ...