EDITORIALS:

Dirkje S. Postma and Marike H. M. Boezen

Peak Expiratory Flow Monitoring in Older Patients with Asthma: An Aid to Management?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1065-1066 [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. Fan Chung

Intrinsic Differences of the Airway Epithelium in Childhood Allergic Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1066-1067 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cesare Saltini

Schedule or Dosage?: The Need to Perfect Intermittent Regimens for Tuberculosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1067-1068 [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Asthma and Allergy:

Mark V. Avdalovic, Lei F. Putney, Edward S. Schelegle, Lisa Miller, Jodie L. Usachenko, Nancy K. Tyler, Charles G. Plopper, Laurel J. Gershwin, and Dallas M. Hyde

Vascular Remodeling Is Airway Generation-Specific in a Primate Model of Chronic Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1069-1076. First published online August 24 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200506-848OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Sonia Buist, William M. Vollmer, Sandra R. Wilson, E. Ann Frazier, and Arthur D. Hayward

A Randomized Clinical Trial of Peak Flow versus Symptom Monitoring in Older Adults with Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1077-1087. First published online August 24 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200510-1606OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Shweta Choudhry, Esteban González Burchard, Luisa N. Borrell, Hua Tang, Ivan Gomez, Mariam Naqvi, Sylvette Nazario, Alphonso Torres, Jesus Casal, Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado, Elad Ziv, Pedro C. Avila, William Rodriguez-Cintron, and Neil J. Risch

Ancestry–Environment Interactions and Asthma Risk among Puerto Ricans

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1088-1093. First published online September 14 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200605-596OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Frank D. Gilliland, Talat Islam, Kiros Berhane, W. James Gauderman, Rob McConnell, Edward Avol, and John M. Peters

Regular Smoking and Asthma Incidence in Adolescents

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1094-1100. First published online September 14 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200605-722OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Gregory A. Hawkins, Kelan Tantisira, Deborah A. Meyers, Elizabeth J. Ampleford, Wendy C. Moore, Barbara Klanderman, Stephen B. Liggett, Stephen P. Peters, Scott T. Weiss, and Eugene R. Bleecker

Sequence, Haplotype, and Association Analysis of ADR2 in a Multiethnic Asthma Case-Control Study

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1101-1109. First published online August 24 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200509-1405OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Anthony Kicic, Erika N. Sutanto, Paul T. Stevens, Darryl A. Knight, and Stephen M. Stick

Intrinsic Biochemical and Functional Differences in Bronchial Epithelial Cells of Children with Asthma

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1110-1118. First published online August 14 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200603-392OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Yukiko Maeda, Nobuyuki Hizawa, Eisei Jinushi, Ayumi Honda, Daisuke Takahashi, Yoshinobu Fukui, Satoshi Konno, Tadamichi Shimizu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Etsuro Yamaguchi, and Masaharu Nishimura

Polymorphisms in the Muscarinic Receptor 1 Gene Confer Susceptibility to Asthma in Japanese Subjects

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1119-1124. First published online August 24 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200601-081OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

B. Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease:

Margaret W. Gerbase, Christian Schindler, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Nino Künzli, Sara H. Downs, Otto Brändli, Joel Schwartz, Martin Frey, Luc Burdet, Thierry Rochat, Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich, Philippe Leuenberger, and on behalf of the SAPALDIA Team

Respiratory Effects of Environmental Tobacco Exposure Are Enhanced by Bronchial Hyperreactivity

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1125-1131. First published online August 24 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200512-1890OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Pulmonary Vascular Disease:

Christoph Dehnert, Frank Risse, Sebastian Ley, Tristan A. Kuder, Ralf Buhmann, Michael Puderbach, Elmar Menold, Derliz Mereles, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Peter Bärtsch, and Christian Fink

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Uneven Pulmonary Perfusion in Hypoxia in Humans

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1132-1138. First published online August 31 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200606-780OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

D. Sleep and Control of Ventilation:

Elizabeth M. Berry-Kravis, Lili Zhou, Casey M. Rand, and Debra E. Weese-Mayer

Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: PHOX2B Mutations and Phenotype

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1139-1144. First published online August 3 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200602-305OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. Transplantation:

Jussi M. Tikkanen, Maria Hollmén, Antti I. Nykänen, Jeanette Wood, Petri K. Koskinen, and Karl B. Lemström

Role of Platelet-derived Growth Factor and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Obliterative Airway Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1145-1152. First published online August 17 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200601-044OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

F. Tuberculosis:

Kwok C. Chang, Chi C. Leung, Wing W. Yew, Shiu L. Chan, and Cheuk M. Tam

Dosing Schedules of 6-Month Regimens and Relapse for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1153-1158. First published online August 14 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200605-637OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Guillermo Bugedo and Alejandro Bruhn

Correspondence Is Maximal Lung Recruitment Worth It?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1159 [Full Text] [PDF]  

João Batista Borges Sobrinho, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro de Carvalho, and Marcelo Britto Passos Amato

Is Maximal Lung Recruitment Worth It?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 1159a [Full Text] [PDF]  

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