EDITORIALS:

Fabrizio Luppi and Pieter S. Hiemstra

Epithelial Responses to Oxidative Stress in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Lessons from Expression Profiling

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 527-528 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian J. Murray

Brain Death by a Thousand Hypoxic Cuts in Sleep

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 528-529 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Madhukar Pai and Dick Menzies

The New IGRA and the Old TST: Making Good Use of Disagreement

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 529-531 [Full Text] [PDF]  

PULMONARY PERSPECTIVE:

Adam Giangreco, Karen R. Groot, and Sam M. Janes

Lung Cancer and Lung Stem Cells: Strange Bedfellows?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 547-553. First published online December 7 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-984PP [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE UPDATES:

Andrew Bush

Update in Pediatric Lung Disease 2006

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 532-540 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wing Wai Yew and Chi Chiu Leung

Update in Tuberculosis 2006

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 541-546 [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Airway Biology:

Jemma B. Wilk, Alan Herbert, Christina M. Shoemaker, Daniel J. Gottlieb, and Samer Karamohamed

Secreted Modular Calcium-binding Protein 2 Haplotypes Are Associated with Pulmonary Function

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 554-560. First published online January 4 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200601-110OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Asthma and Allergy:

Paul Forsythe, Mark D. Inman, and John Bienenstock

Oral Treatment with Live Lactobacillus reuteri Inhibits the Allergic Airway Response in Mice

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 561-569. First published online January 4 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200606-821OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sally E. Wenzel, Silvana Balzar, Elizabeth Ampleford, Gregory A. Hawkins, William W. Busse, William J. Calhoun, Mario Castro, K. Fan Chung, Serpil Erzurum, Benjamin Gaston, Elliot Israel, W. Gerald Teague, Douglas Curran-Everett, Deborah A. Meyers, and Eugene R. Bleecker

IL4R Mutations Are Associated with Asthma Exacerbations and Mast Cell/IgE Expression

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 570-576. First published online December 14 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-909OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

C. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

Stefan Pierrou, Per Broberg, Rory A. O'Donnell, Krzysztof Pawlowski, Robert Virtala, Eva Lindqvist, Audrey Richter, Susan J. Wilson, Gilbert Angco, Sebastian Möller, Håkan Bergstrand, Witte Koopmann, Elisabet Wieslander, Per-Erik Strömstedt, Stephen T. Holgate, Donna E. Davies, Johan Lund, and Ratko Djukanovic

Expression of Genes Involved in Oxidative Stress Responses in Airway Epithelial Cells of Smokers with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 577-586. First published online December 7 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200607-931OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

D. Critical Care:

Amy Bellmeyer, Janice M. Martino, Navdeep S. Chandel, G. R. Scott Budinger, David A. Dean, and Gökhan M. Mutlu

Leptin Resistance Protects Mice from Hyperoxia-induced Acute Lung Injury

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 587-594. First published online December 21 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200603-312OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Neil Cartwright, Oliver Murch, Shaun K. McMaster, Mark J. Paul-Clark, David A. van Heel, Bernhard Ryffel, Valerie F. J. Quesniaux, Timothy W. Evans, Christoph Thiemermann, and Jane A. Mitchell

Selective NOD1 Agonists Cause Shock and Organ Injury/Dysfunction In Vivo

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 595-603. First published online January 18 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200608-1103OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

E. Pulmonary Infections:

Mark C. Dessing, Sylvia Knapp, Sandrine Florquin, Alex F. de Vos, and Tom van der Poll

CD14 Facilitates Invasive Respiratory Tract Infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 604-611. First published online December 21 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200606-824OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

F. Sleep and Control of Ventilation:

Kenji Minoguchi, Takuya Yokoe, Toshiyuki Tazaki, Hideko Minoguchi, Naruhito Oda, Akihiko Tanaka, Mayumi Yamamoto, Shin Ohta, Christopher P. O'Donnell, and Mitsuru Adachi

Silent Brain Infarction and Platelet Activation in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 612-617 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

G. Tuberculosis:

Sandra M. Arend, Steven F. T. Thijsen, Eliane M. S. Leyten, John J. M. Bouwman, Willeke P. J. Franken, Ben F. P. J. Koster, Frank G. J. Cobelens, Arend-Jan van Houte, and Ailko W. J. Bossink

Comparison of Two Interferon- Assays and Tuberculin Skin Test for Tracing Tuberculosis Contacts

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 618-627. First published online December 14 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200608-1099OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Alan R. Leff

Racemic = R Enantiomer: A Dual Citation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 628 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bill T. Ameredes and William J. Calhoun

Racemic = R Enantiomer: A Dual Citation

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 628a-629 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paolo Paredi

How Much Smoke Do We Need in Order to Assume That There Is a Fire?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 629 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nino Künzli, Ed Avol, and John Peters

How Much Smoke Do We Need in Order to Assume That There Is a Fire?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 175: 629a [Full Text] [PDF]  

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