Year in review 2011: Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and airway biology

Omalizumab in Severe Allergic Asthma Inadequately Controlled With Standard Therapy

(2013) Nicola A. Hanania et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

SLPI and trappin-2 as therapeutic agents to target airway serine proteases in inflammatory lung diseases: current and future directions

(2012) Marie-Louise Zani et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Lung Homing of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Humans with Asthma after Allergen Challenge

(2011) Haruki Imaoka et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

A Review of α1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

(2011) James K. Stoller et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Peripheral Muscle Fiber Remodeling in Patients With COPD in GOLD Stages II to IV

(2011) Ioannis Vogiatzis et al.   CHEST

Co-morbidities and 90-day Outcomes in Hospitalized COPD Exacerbations

(2011) Christopher M. Roberts et al.   COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Genetic and genomic approaches to asthma

(2011) Youming Zhang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PULMONARY MEDICINE

The sentinel role of the airway epithelium in asthma pathogenesis

(2011) Stephen T. Holgate   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Pathophysiology of asthma: What has our current understanding taught us about new therapeutic approaches?

(2011) Stephen T. Holgate   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Quantifying the proportion of severe asthma exacerbations attributable to inhaled corticosteroid nonadherence

(2011) L. Keoki Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Asthma endotypes: A new approach to classification of disease entities within the asthma syndrome

(2011) Jan Lötvall et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Management of asthma in pregnancy guided by measurement of fraction of exhaled nitric oxide: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial

(2011) Heather Powell et al.   LANCET

Assessing the Safety of Adding LABAs to Inhaled Corticosteroids for Treating Asthma

(2011) Badrul A. Chowdhury et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Leukotriene Antagonists as First-Line or Add-on Asthma-Controller Therapy

(2011) David Price et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Effect of Bronchoconstriction on Airway Remodeling in Asthma

(2011) Christopher L. Grainge et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Genomewide Association betweenGLCCI1and Response to Glucocorticoid Therapy in Asthma

(2011) Kelan G. Tantisira et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Lebrikizumab Treatment in Adults with Asthma

(2011) Jonathan Corren et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Randomized Trial of Omalizumab (Anti-IgE) for Asthma in Inner-City Children

(2011) William W. Busse et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Genetics of Sputum Gene Expression in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

(2011) Weiliang Qiu et al.   PLoS One

Insights into asthmatic airway remodelling through murine models

(2011) SABA AL HEIALY et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Detection of microorganisms in exhaled breath condensate during acute exacerbations of COPD

(2011) TETYANA ZAKHARKINA et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Exhaled nitric oxide and exhaled breath condensate pH as predictors of sputum cell counts in optimally treated asthmatic smokers

(2011) GEORGIOS HILLAS et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Efficacy of tiotropium in COPD patients from Asia: A subgroup analysis from the UPLIFT trial

(2011) YOSHINOSUKE FUKUCHI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Cardiac autonomic dysfunction and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(2011) ARNOLDUS J.R. VAN GESTEL et al.   RESPIROLOGY

EMMPRIN (CD147) regulation of MMP-9 in bronchial epithelial cells in COPD

(2011) STEPHANE JOUNEAU et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Discrimination between COPD patients with and without alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency using an electronic nose

(2011) AKIRA D.M. HATTESOHL et al.   RESPIROLOGY

The role of non-invasive home mechanical ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring prolonged weaning

(2011) FRANK HEINEMANN et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Prevalence of anxiety and depression among chronic bronchitis patients and the associated factors

(2011) JAVIER DE MIGUEL DÍEZ et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Association of interleukin-13 C-1112T and G+2044A polymorphisms with asthma: A meta-analysis

(2011) HAIJUN YANG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Burden of obstructive lung disease in a rural setting in the Philippines

(2011) LUISITO F. IDOLOR et al.   RESPIROLOGY

The importance of epigenetics in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(2011) SEIICHIRO SAKAO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Relationship between polymorphisms in the 5′ leader cistron, positions 16 and 27 of the adrenergic β2 receptor gene and asthma in a Han population from southwest China

(2011) WEI-PING FU et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Impaired endothelial progenitor cell mobilization and colony-forming capacity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(2011) TORU TAKAHASHI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Association of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) receptor 4 (5-HTR4) gene polymorphisms with asthma

(2011) TAE-HOON KIM et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Comparison of high-dose salmeterol/fluticasone and moderate-dose salmeterol/fluticasone plus low-dose mometasone in patients with severe persistent asthma

(2011) KAZUYOSHI KURASHIMA et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Usage of spacers in respiratory laboratories and the delivered salbutamol dose of spacers available in Australia and New Zealand

(2011) GRAHAM L. HALL et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Sputum zinc concentration and clinical outcome in older asthmatics

(2011) LATA JAYARAM et al.   RESPIROLOGY

The value of the CRB65 score to predict mortality in exacerbations of COPD requiring hospital admission

(2011) LLIFON EDWARDS et al.   RESPIROLOGY

A multicentre surveillance study on the characteristics, bacterial aetiologies and in vitro antibiotic susceptibilities in patients with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis

(2011) DAVID S. HUI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Use of specific airway resistance to assess bronchodilator response in children

(2011) BRUNO MAHUT et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Preventing hospitalizations for COPD exacerbation: Early pulmonary rehabilitation?

(2011) Jean Bourbeau   RESPIROLOGY

Comparison of alveolar nitric oxide concentrations using two different methods for assessing small airways obstruction in asthma

(2011) DAIKI KOBAYASHI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Heat shock protein 27 and cyclophilin A associate with the pathogenesis of COPD

(2011) RUICHENG HU et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Bronchial brushings for investigating airway inflammation and remodelling

(2011) KEVIN LOOI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

How to set up a severe asthma service

(2011) VANESSA M. MCDONALD et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Effect of spirometry and medical review on asthma control in patients in general practice: A randomized controlled trial

(2011) SIAO MING OEI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Tobacco smoking in China: Prevalence, disease burden, challenges and future strategies

(2011) JING ZHANG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Roflumilast in Asian patients with COPD: A randomized placebo-controlled trial

(2011) SANG-DO LEE et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Outdoor air pollution and respiratory health in Asia

(2011) KIAN FAN CHUNG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Genome-wide association studies for discovery of genes involved in asthma

(2011) LOUBNA AKHABIR et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Relationship between asthma control status, the Asthma Control Test™ and urgent health-care utilization in Asia

(2011) CHRISTOPHER K.W. LAI et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Heaves, an asthma-like disease of horses

(2011) MATHILDE LECLERE et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Korea: The fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2008

(2011) KWANG H. YOO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Dyspnoea severity and pneumonia as predictors of in-hospital mortality and early readmission in acute exacerbations of COPD

(2011) J Steer et al.   THORAX

The building blocks of mammalian lung development

(2010) Emma L. Rawlins   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Genome-wide association study of asthma identifies RAD50-IL13 and HLA-DR/DQ regions

(2010) Xingnan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Respiratory health issues in the Asia-Pacific region: An overview

(2010) Euzebiusz JAMROZIK et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Setting up a respiratory trials unit

(2010) Najib M. RAHMAN et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Association between the tumour necrosis factor-α−308G/A polymorphism and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An update

(2010) Shihua ZHANG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Predicting early mortality in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using the CURB65 score

(2010) Catherina L. CHANG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Effects of adding salmeterol/fluticasone propionate to tiotropium on airway dimensions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(2010) Makoto HOSHINO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Immunohistochemical staining for transcription factor MafB in alveolar macrophages is correlated with spirometric measures of airflow limitation in smokers

(2010) Michiko SATO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Difficult asthma and Churg-Strauss-like syndrome: A cautionary tale

(2010) Edmund M.T. LAU et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Serum angiopoietin-2 levels are elevated during acute exacerbations of COPD

(2010) Yu Ji CHO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Cigarette smoke modulates PGE2 and host defence against Moraxella catarrhalis infection in human airway epithelial cells

(2010) WEIYUN ZHANG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Impaired swallow in COPD

(2010) Bhajan Singh   RESPIROLOGY

A hypothesis to phenotype COPD exacerbations by aetiology

(2010) Martin MacDONALD et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Laryngeal penetration and aspiration in individuals with stable COPD

(2010) Lydia CVEJIC et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Pulmonary rehabilitation improves exercise capacity and quality of life in underweight patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(2010) Chou-Chin LAN et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Persistence of rhinovirus RNA and IP-10 gene expression after acute asthma

(2010) Lisa G. WOOD et al.   RESPIROLOGY

The lower the body weight for COPD patients, the more effective is pulmonary rehabilitation?

(2010) Fanny W.S. Ko et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Cellular therapies for lung disease: A distant horizon

(2010) Yuben MOODLEY et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Functional haplotypes in the PTGDR gene fail to associate with asthma in two Australian populations

(2010) Euzebiusz F. JAMROZIK et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Comparison of tiotropium plus formoterol to tiotropium alone in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A meta-analysis

(2010) Jianmiao WANG et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor inhibits neutrophil apoptosis

(2010) Devipriya SUBRAMANIYAM et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Effect of early pulmonary rehabilitation on health care utilization and health status in patients hospitalized with acute exacerbations of COPD

(2010) FANNY W.S. KO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Relationship of endotoxin and tobacco smoke exposure to wheeze and diurnal peak expiratory flow variability in children and adolescents

(2010) Joshua A. LAWSON et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Rhinovirus infection induces expression of airway remodelling factors in vitro and in vivo

(2010) Curtis KUO et al.   RESPIROLOGY

The effects of bushfire smoke on respiratory health

(2010) Martine DENNEKAMP et al.   RESPIROLOGY

An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Asthma Control and Exacerbations

(2009) Helen K. Reddel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Independent Effect of Depression and Anxiety on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations and Hospitalizations

(2008) Wanning Xu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Mortality in Patients With COPD

(2008) Jacob N. de Voogd et al.   CHEST

Exhaled breath condensate and airway inflammation

(2008) Frank Hoffmeyer et al.   Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Exhaled breath condensate biomarkers in COPD

(2008) Z. L. Borrill et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL