Thorax: 68 (12)

Airwaves

Highlights from this issue (7 November, 2013) Free
Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord

Editorials

The yin and the yang of immunosuppression with inhaled corticosteroids (8 August, 2013) Free
Ian Sabroe, Dirkje Postma, Irene Heijink, David H Dockrell
IPF: time for the (ciliary) beat generation? (4 September, 2013) Free
Sarah Wiscombe, Ian A Forrest, A John Simpson
Journal policy on research funded by the tobacco industry (15 October, 2013) Free
Fiona Godlee, Ruth Malone, Adam Timmis, Catherine Otto, Andrew Bush, Ian Pavord, Trish Groves

HOT off the breath

Tuberculosis vaccines: time to reset the paradigm? (7 June, 2013) Free
Ajit Lalvani, Saranya Sridhar, C Fordham von Reyn

Lung cancer

Original article: The prognostic significance of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 (ALDH1A1) and CD133 expression in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (22 July, 2013)
Muhammad Alamgeer, Vinod Ganju, Anette Szczepny, Prudence A Russell, Zdenka Prodanovic, Beena Kumar, Zoe Wainer, Tracey Brown, Michal Schneider-Kolsky, Matthew Conron, Gavin Wright, D Neil Watkins

Tuberculosis

Original article: Use of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of tuberculosis (8 June, 2013) Free
Chang-Hoon Lee, Kyungjoo Kim, Min Kyung Hyun, Eun Jin Jang, Na Rae Lee, Jae-Joon Yim

Interstitial lung disease

Original article: Expression of cilium-associated genes defines novel molecular subtypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (19 June, 2013) Free
Ivana V Yang, Christopher D Coldren, Sonia M Leach, Max A Seibold, Elissa Murphy, Jia Lin, Rachel Rosen, Amanda J Neidermyer, David F McKean, Steve D Groshong, Carlyne Cool, Gregory P Cosgrove, David A Lynch, Kevin K Brown, Marvin I Schwarz, Tasha E Fingerlin, David A Schwartz

Biomarkers of disease

Original article: Systemic tryptophan and kynurenine catabolite levels relate to severity of rhinovirus-induced asthma exacerbation: a prospective study with a parallel-group design (23 July, 2013) Free
Koenraad F van der Sluijs, Marianne A van de Pol, Wim Kulik, Annemiek Dijkhuis, Barbara S Smids, Hetty W van Eijk, Jos A Karlas, Richard Molenkamp, Katja C Wolthers, Sebastian L Johnston, Jaring S van der Zee, Peter J Sterk, René Lutter, the RESOLVE research team

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Original article: Imbalance between subpopulations of regulatory T cells in COPD (7 June, 2013) Free
Jia Hou, Yongchang Sun, Yu Hao, Jie Zhuo, Xiaofang Liu, Peng Bai, Junyan Han, Xiwei Zheng, Hui Zeng
Original article: Increased skeletal muscle-specific microRNA in the blood of patients with COPD (28 June, 2013)
Anna Donaldson, Samantha A Natanek, Amy Lewis, William D-C Man, Nicholas S Hopkinson, Michael I Polkey, Paul R Kemp

Respiratory infection

Original article: Microbial communities in the respiratory tract of patients with interstitial lung disease (14 August, 2013)
Christian Garzoni, Silvio D Brugger, Weihong Qi, Sarah Wasmer, Alexia Cusini, Philippe Dumont, Meri Gorgievski-Hrisoho, Kathrin Mühlemann, Christophe von Garnier, Markus Hilty

Review

Airway inflammation in cystic fibrosis: molecular mechanisms and clinical implications (23 May, 2013) Free
Malena Cohen-Cymberknoh, Eitan Kerem, Thomas Ferkol, Arnon Elizur

Research letter

Research letter: Evaluating hypoxia during air travel in healthy infants (18 July, 2013) Free
Mansi Khanna, Claire Shackleton, Maureen Verheggen, Mary Sharp, Andrew C Wilson, Graham L Hall

PostScript

Correspondence: Systemic safety of fluticasone furoate/vilanterol combination (2 July, 2013) Free
Brian Lipworth
Correspondence: Authors’ reply to ‘Safety and tolerability of fluticasone furoate/vilanterol’ (2 July, 2013) Free
William W Busse, Leslie Andersen
Correspondence: Asthma admissions, smoking bans and administrative databases (26 August, 2013) Free
Brian D Kent, Stephen J Lane, Edward D Moloney
Correspondence: Asthma admissions, smoking bans and administrative databases: author’s response (16 September, 2013) Free
Michelle Sims, Roy Maxwell, Anna Gilmore
Correspondence: What is top of the charts? BPIFB1/LPLUNC1 localises to the bronchiolised epithelium in the honeycomb cysts in UIP (7 September, 2013) Free
Colin D Bingle, Bianca Araujo, William A Wallace, Nik Hirani, Lynne Bingle

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Audit, research and guideline update: European hospital adherence to GOLD recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation admissions (1 June, 2013) Free
C Michael Roberts, Jose Luis Lopez-Campos, Francisco Pozo-Rodriguez, Sylvia Hartl, on behalf of the European COPD Audit team
Audit, research and guideline update: Migration and tuberculosis in the UK: targeting screening for latent infection to those at greatest risk of disease (4 July, 2013) Free
Michelle E Kruijshaar, Ibrahim Abubakar, Helen R Stagg, Debora Pedrazzoli, Marc Lipman

Pulmonary puzzles

Pulmonary puzzles: The bird it was that died (7 November, 2013) Free
Hannah Povey, Duncan Cameron

Basic science for the chest physician

Basic science for the chest physician: Regulatory T cells and COPD (21 October, 2013) Free
Rachel Dancer, David M Sansom

Opinion

Opinion: Improving care for patients with lung cancer in the UK (7 November, 2013) Free
Tariq Sethi, Eric Lim, Mick Peake, John Field, John White, Marianne Nicolson, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Paul Cane, John Reynolds, Henrik Møller, Hilary Pinnock

Journal club summaries

Journal club summaries: What's hot the other lot got (7 November, 2013) Free
Benjamin Prudon

Miscellanea

Journal club: Linezolid for XDR-TB (28 February, 2013) Free
Richard D Turner
Journal club: Thalidamide for IPF-associated cough (5 March, 2013) Free
Peter Kardos
Journal club: Fibulin-3 as a blood and effusion biomarker for pleural mesothelioma (7 March, 2013) Free
James Murray

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December 2013 - Volume 68 - 12

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Lung cancer

Tuberculosis

Interstitial lung disease

Biomarkers of disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respiratory infection

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Pulmonary puzzles

Basic science for the chest physician

Opinion

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

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Table of contents

December 2013 - Volume 68 - 12

Airwaves

Editorials

HOT off the breath

Lung cancer

Tuberculosis

Interstitial lung disease

Biomarkers of disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respiratory infection

Review

Research letter

PostScript

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

Pulmonary puzzles

Basic science for the chest physician

Opinion

Journal club summaries

Miscellanea

Issue Information