P3-specific amplitude reductions to respiratory and auditory stimuli in subjects with asthma.

abstract：:The long-acting beta 2-agonist salmeterol has been suggested to have other pharmacologic activities, that is, antiinflammatory capacities, in addition to its bronchodilator properties. We investigated the protective effect of 50 micrograms salmeterol in a placebo-controlled study on house dust mite-induced early- and ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Weersink EJ,Aalbers R,Koëter GH,Kauffman HF,De Monchy JG,Postma DS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis has been reported to be associated with an increased risk of lung cancer. However, it has recently become apparent that cigarette smoking may be a risk factor for cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis as well as for lung cancer, and so may confound the association between these conditions. ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hubbard R,Venn A,Lewis S,Britton J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic treatment for severe asthma targeting airway smooth muscle (ASM). Observational studies have shown ASM mass reduction after BT, but appropriate control groups are lacking. Furthermore, as treatment response is variable, identifying optimal candidates for BT tre...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Goorsenberg AWM,d'Hooghe JNS,Srikanthan K,Ten Hacken NHT,Weersink EJM,Roelofs JJTH,Kemp SV,Bel EH,Shah PL,Annema JT,Bonta PI,TASMA research group.

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Spontaneous breathing during mechanical ventilation increases transpulmonary pressure and Vt, and worsens lung injury. Intuitively, controlling Vt and transpulmonary pressure might limit injury caused by added spontaneous effort. OBJECTIVES:To test the hypothesis that, during spontaneous effort in injured lu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yoshida T,Nakahashi S,Nakamura MAM,Koyama Y,Roldan R,Torsani V,De Santis RR,Gomes S,Uchiyama A,Amato MBP,Kavanagh BP,Fujino Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is caused by the loss of function of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) combined with hyperactivation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). In the lung, ENaC is responsible for movement of sodium. Hyperactivation of ENaC, which creates an osmoti...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Scott DW,Walker MP,Sesma J,Wu B,Stuhlmiller TJ,Sabater JR,Abraham WM,Crowder TM,Christensen DJ,Tarran R

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the clinico-pathologic correlation of tumor angiogenesis in non-small-cell lung cancers. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded surgical specimens of 55 consecutive patients with primary non-small-cell lung cancers were examined. Included were 26 squamous cell carcinomas and 29 adenocarcinomas. Twen...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Yuan A,Yang PC,Yu CJ,Lee YC,Yao YT,Chen CL,Lee LN,Kuo SH,Luh KT

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Incident pulmonary arterial hypertension was underrepresented in most pulmonary hypertension registries and may have a different disease profile to prevalent disease. OBJECTIVES:To determine the characteristics and outcome of a purely incident, treatment-naive cohort of idiopathic, heritable, and anorexigen-...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ling Y,Johnson MK,Kiely DG,Condliffe R,Elliot CA,Gibbs JS,Howard LS,Pepke-Zaba J,Sheares KK,Corris PA,Fisher AJ,Lordan JL,Gaine S,Coghlan JG,Wort SJ,Gatzoulis MA,Peacock AJ

更新日期：2012-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its central role in hemostasis, thrombin may play a role in inflammation and remodeling. To investigate the contribution of thrombin to allergic airway inflammation in asthma, we used an enzymatic assay to determine thrombin activity in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid obtained from 19 subjects with atopic ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Terada M,Kelly EA,Jarjour NN

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically, the spread of infectious agents between subjects undergoing spirometry is quite uncommon. There is almost no documentation in the medical literature on this subject. We studied the retrieval of nonpathogenic Escherichia coli after aerosolizing organisms into standard pulmonary function tubing of a type tha...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hiebert T,Miles J,Okeson GC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early experience suggests that lung volume reduction surgery improves exercise tolerance as measured by the 6-min walk distance in patients with emphysema. To identify the physiologic mechanism(s) by which lung volume reduction surgery improved exercise, we performed progressive cardiopulmonary exercise testing, inclu...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Benditt JO,Lewis S,Wood DE,Klima L,Albert RK

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Improved ventilation strategies have been the mainstay for reducing mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Their unique clinical effectiveness is, however, unmatched by our understanding of the underlying mechanobiology, and their impact on alveolar dynamics and gas exchange remains largely specula...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Tabuchi A,Nickles HT,Kim M,Semple JW,Koch E,Brochard L,Slutsky AS,Pries AR,Kuebler WM

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory infection in infants; however, it remains unclear which infants with bronchiolitis will develop severe illness. In addition, although emerging evidence indicates associations of the upper-airway microbiome with bronchiolitis severity, little is known about th...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Stewart CJ,Mansbach JM,Wong MC,Ajami NJ,Petrosino JF,Camargo CA Jr,Hasegawa K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal activities of several once-weekly rifapentine (P)-containing combination regimens against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and their ability to prevent the selection of rifampin (R)-resistant mutants, were compared with those of the standard six-times-weekly regimen consisting of R, isoniazid (H), and pyra...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Grosset J,Lounis N,Truffot-Pernot C,O'Brien RJ,Raviglione MC,Ji B

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The incidence of influenza-associated acute respiratory failure is unknown. OBJECTIVES:To estimate the population-based incidence of influenza-associated acute respiratory failure hospitalizations. METHODS:This is a cohort study from January 2003 through March 2009 using hospitalization databases for Arizon...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ortiz JR,Neuzil KM,Rue TC,Zhou H,Shay DK,Cheng PY,Cooke CR,Goss CH

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the apparent contradictions in vascular remodeling in the lungs of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, we evaluated alveolar vascularity in relation to the various degrees of fibrosis in surgically biopsied lungs of usual interstitial pneumonia. Alveolar capillary endothelial cells were intensely...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Ebina M,Shimizukawa M,Shibata N,Kimura Y,Suzuki T,Endo M,Sasano H,Kondo T,Nukiwa T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the incidence and 90-d mortality of acute respiratory failure (ARF), acute lung injury (ALI), and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), we carried out an 8-wk prospective cohort study in Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland. All intensive care unit (ICU) admissions (n = 13,346) >/= 15 yr of age were ass...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Luhr OR,Antonsen K,Karlsson M,Aardal S,Thorsteinsson A,Frostell CG,Bonde J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histologic feature of usual interstitial pneumonia is the presence of fibroblastic foci. As some patients with usual interstitial pneumonia and an underlying collagen vascular disease have a better prognosis, we hypothesized that they would have fewer fibroblastic foci. Pathologists reviewed surgical lung biopsies f...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Flaherty KR,Colby TV,Travis WD,Toews GB,Mumford J,Murray S,Thannickal VJ,Kazerooni EA,Gross BH,Lynch JP 3rd,Martinez FJ

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this prospective study was to detect subjects in the general population with objective signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma at an early stage. This was done by means of a two-stage protocol involving screening and a subsequent 2-yr monitoring of all subjects with positive results ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： van den Boom G,van Schayck CP,van Möllen MP,Tirimanna PR,den Otter JJ,van Grunsven PM,Buitendijk MJ,van Herwaarden CL,van Weel C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Studies in humans and rodents have indicated a causative role for CD8(+) T cells in IgE-mediated allergic inflammation, but their function is still controversial. OBJECTIVES:To analyze the role of allergen-specific CD8(+) T cells during the development of allergic airway inflammation in two parallel but dive...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Aguilar-Pimentel JA,Alessandrini F,Huster KM,Jakob T,Schulz H,Behrendt H,Ring J,de Angelis MH,Busch DH,Mempel M,Ollert M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Noninvasive ventilation decreases the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and mortality among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but has not been well studied in asthma.Objectives: To assess the association between noninvasive ventilation and subsequent need for invasive mechanical ven...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Althoff MD,Holguin F,Yang F,Grunwald GK,Moss M,Vandivier RW,Ho PM,Kiser TH,Burnham EL

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last century experienced remarkable advances in the classification, diagnosis, and understanding of the pathogenesis of the interstitial lung diseases. Technological advances, particularly physiologic testing, lung imaging studies, bronchoalveolar lavage, surgical lung biopsy, and histopathologic assessment, impro...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： King TE Jr

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Defining the biogeography of bacterial populations in human body habitats is a high priority for understanding microbial-host relationships in health and disease. The healthy lung was traditionally considered sterile, but this notion has been challenged by emerging molecular approaches that enable comprehensi...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Charlson ES,Bittinger K,Haas AR,Fitzgerald AS,Frank I,Yadav A,Bushman FD,Collman RG

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many persons say that they "don't know" whether they snore. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and correlates of such responses in an elderly population. Subjects were 1715 members (1,155 men, 560 women) of a previously defined cohort (Western Group Collaborative Study) followed prospectively ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bliwise DL,Swan GE,Carmelli D,La Rue A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of strain difference in the response to cigarette smoke was investigated in mice. Mice of the strains DBA/2 and C57BL/6J responded to acute cigarette smoke with a decrease of the antioxidant defenses of their bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids. On the other hand, under these conditions ICR mice increased the...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cavarra E,Bartalesi B,Lucattelli M,Fineschi S,Lunghi B,Gambelli F,Ortiz LA,Martorana PA,Lungarella G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) has been implicated in interstitial lung disease pathobiology and proposed as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. OBJECTIVES:To test associations between serum MMP-7 and lung function, respiratory symptoms, interstitial lung abnormalities...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Armstrong HF,Podolanczuk AJ,Barr RG,Oelsner EC,Kawut SM,Hoffman EA,Tracy R,Kaminski N,McClelland RL,Lederer DJ

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence of pulmonary hypertension is higher in female patients, numerous experimental studies have demonstrated better outcome in female animals, exacerbation of the disease after ovariectomy, and a strong protective effect of estrogen: a phenomenon known as the "estrogen paradox" of pulmonary hypertens...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Umar S,Rabinovitch M,Eghbali M

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current classification of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is based on a relatively simple combination of patient characteristics and hemodynamics. This limits customization of treatment, and lacks the clarity of a more granular identification based on individual patient phenotypes. Rapid advances in mechanistic ...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Dweik RA,Rounds S,Erzurum SC,Archer S,Fagan K,Hassoun PM,Hill NS,Humbert M,Kawut SM,Krowka M,Michelakis E,Morrell NW,Stenmark K,Tuder RM,Newman J,ATS Committee on Pulmonary Hypertension Phenotypes.

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sepsis refers to the clinical syndrome of severe systemic inflammation precipitated by infection. Despite appropriate antimicrobial therapy, sepsis-related morbidity and mortality remain intractable problems in critically ill patients. Moreover, there is no specific treatment strategy for the syndrome of seps...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Mei SH,Haitsma JJ,Dos Santos CC,Deng Y,Lai PF,Slutsky AS,Liles WC,Stewart DJ

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension is a life-threatening complication of sickle cell disease. L-Arginine is the nitrogen donor for synthesis of nitric oxide, a potent vasodilator that is deficient during times of sickle cell crisis. This deficiency may play a role in pulmonary hypertension. The enzyme arginase hydrolyzes arginine...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Morris CR,Morris SM Jr,Hagar W,Van Warmerdam J,Claster S,Kepka-Lenhart D,Machado L,Kuypers FA,Vichinsky EP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate interactions between the endothelium and leukocytes in patients with sepsis, we measured soluble adhesion molecules (sE-selectin and sICAM-1), von Willebrand factor antigen (vWf:Ag), myeloperoxidase (MPO), and lactoferrin (Lacto-f) as plasma markers of endothelial and neutrophil activation. We tested wh...

journal_title：American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kayal S,Jaïs JP,Aguini N,Chaudière J,Labrousse J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00