R. Bals (Marburg, Germany), C. Taggart (Dublin, Ireland)
Human α-defensin as a biosensor of interstitial lung diseases. An ex-vivo study G. Paone, F. Carbone, G. Lucantoni, G. Galluccio, E. Li Bianchi, P. Di Giacomo, P. Regimenti, A. Perrone, G. Munafo‘, G. Schmid (Rome, Italy)
|  |
High sensivity C reactive protein (HS-CRP) levels mark pulmonary and systemic inflammation in stable COPD E. Sapey, B. Darren, G. Diane, N. Paul, S. A. Robert (Birmingham, Charnwood, United Kingdom)
|  |
Vascular remodelling in bronchial mucosa of smokers with and without airway obstruction C. Calabrese, V. Bocchino, A. Vatrella, S. Mascitti, I. Pedicelli, C. Marzo, C. Guarino, F. Squillante, S. A. Marsico (Naples, Italy)
|  |
Does endostatin inhibit epithelial repair in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? A. G. Richter, D. R. Thickett (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
|  |
Expression of IL-16 in peripheral blood stem cell-derived human basophils Y. Inoue, Y. Tanimoto, M. Sakugawa, Y. Ogata, N. Suzaki, K. Matsumoto, H. Saito, M. Tanimoto (Okayama, Tokyo, Japan)
|  |
Bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in CD4- and CD8-deficient mice H. Fujimoto, E. C. Gabazza, T. Takagi, T. Maruyama, Y. Nishii, H. Nakahara, A. Yamaguchi, T. Kobayashi, H. Kobayashi, C. N. D‘Alessandro-Gabazza, O. Takagi (Tsu, Japan)
|  |
Gene expression profiling of IL-5 stimulated bronchial smooth muscle cells: a new role for IL-5? G. A. Froemming, F. Jaafar, R. Haron, M. S. Md Said (Shah Alam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
|  |
Leptin activates the JAK/STAT signaling pathway in bronchial and alveolar epithelial cells J. H. J. Vernooy, A. Haegens, D. Van Opbergen, R. H. E. Cloots, E. F. M. Wouters (Maastricht, Netherlands)
|  |
Comparative responses of upper and lower airway epithelial cells to inflammatory stimulation in COPD J. R. Hurst, R. Kuchai, P. Michael, R. J. Sapsford, J. A. Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
|  |
Morphometric study of hypoxia inducible factor-1α-vascular endothelial growth factor (HIF-1α-VEGF) axis in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with the use of tissue microarrays A. Tzouvelekis, A. Karameris, A. Koutsopoulos, R. Triggidou, E. Tsiambas, M. Froudarakis, P. Steiropoulos, A. Pataka, G. Kouliatsis, S. Anevlavis, D. Bouros (Alexandroupolis, Athens, Heraklion, Greece)
|  |
Prostaglandin D2 is a human airway smooth muscle chemoattractant P. Nair, K. Radford, J. Stephen, G. Cox (Hamilton, Canada)
|  |
The cytoplasmic tail of IL-13Rα2 regulates both IL-4 and IL-13 signal transduction A. L. Andrews, J. W. Holloway, S. T. Holgate, D. E. Davies (Southampton, United Kingdom)
|  |
The PPARgamma agonist ciglitizone inhibits CXCL10 release by asthmatic and non-asthmatic airway smooth muscle cells J. M. Hughes, H. Alkhouri, D. J. Lalor, Q. Ge, C. L. Armour (Sydney, Australia)
|  |
Molecular mechanisms of the synergy between cysteinyl-leukotrienes and receptor tyrosine kinase growth factors on human bronchial fibroblast proliferation H. Yoshisue, S. T. Holgate, D. E. Davies, A. P. Sampson (Southampton, United Kingdom)
|  |
Expression and cell specific localization of glutathione-S-transferase omega in healthy human lung and COPD T. Harju, M. Peltoniemi, P. Rytilä, K. Salmenkivi, Y. Soini, V. L. Kinnula (Oulu, Helsinki, Finland)
|  |
Role of purinergic receptors in the activation of human airway smooth muscle cells by the antimicrobial peptide LL-37 S. Zuyderduyn, D. K. Ninaber, P. S. Hiemstra, K. F. Rabe (Leiden, Netherlands)
|  |
Anti-endothelial cell antibodies in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension U. Silvia, M. Nicolls, N. Burns, R. Speich, N. Voelkel, L. Taraseviciene (Denver, United States Of America; Zurich, Switzerland)
|  |
Muramyldipeptide synergistically increases interleukin-8 secretion from bronchial epithelial cells in a cell culture model of gramnegative infection L. Farkas, S. Heitzer, B. Stoelcker, N. Jentsch, M. Pfeifer, C. Schulz (Regensburg, Donaustauf, Germany)
|  |
Microvesicles from human activated dendritic cells are released as a function of danger signals and fuse with resting dendritic cells allowing them to present allo-antigens C. Obregon, B. Rothe-Rutishauser, P. Gehr, L. P. Nicod (Bern, Switzerland)
|  |
KL-6, a human MUC1 mucin, promotes proliferation and survival of lung fibroblasts S. Ohshimo, A. Yokoyama, N. Hattori, N. Ishikawa, Y. Hirasawa, N. Kohno (Hiroshima, Ehime, Japan)
|  |