EDITORIALS:

Mark W. Frampton, and Ian A. Greaves On Behalf of the ATS Environmental Health Policy Committee

NOx - NOx: Who's There?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1077-1078 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dan L. Nicolae and Carole Ober

(Too) Great Expectations: The Challenges in Replicating Asthma Disease Genes

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1078-1079 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia E. Kuehni, Ben D. Spycher, and Michael Silverman

Causal Links between RSV Infection and Asthma: No Clear Answers to an Old Question

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1079-1080 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eliot R. Spindel

Is Nicotine the Estrogen of Lung Cancer?

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1081-1082 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander Logan

Sleep-disordered Breathing and Hypertension

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1082-1083 [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

A. Asthma and Allergy:

Angela J. Rogers, Benjamin A. Raby, Jessica A. Lasky-Su, Amy Murphy, Ross Lazarus, Barbara J. Klanderman, Jody S. Sylvia, John P. Ziniti, Christoph Lange, Juan C. Celedón, Edwin K. Silverman, and Scott T. Weiss

Assessing the Reproducibility of Asthma Candidate Gene Associations, Using Genome-wide Data

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1084-1090. First published online March 5 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200812-1860OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Simon Francis Thomsen, Sophie van der Sluis, Lone G. Stensballe, Danielle Posthuma, Axel Skytthe, Kirsten O. Kyvik, David L. Duffy, Vibeke Backer, and Hans Bisgaard

Exploring the Association between Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection and Asthma: A Registry-based Twin Study

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1091-1097. First published online March 12 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200809-1471OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Critical Care:

Stephan Urs Sixt, Michael Adamzik, Daniel Spyrka, Boris Saul, Jan Hakenbeck, Jeremias Wohlschlaeger, Ulrich Costabel, Alexander Kloß, Jan Giesebrecht, Burkhardt Dahlmann, and Jürgen Peters

Alveolar Extracellular 20S Proteasome in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1098-1106. First published online March 12 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200802-199OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Murali Shyamsundar, Scott T. W. McKeown, Cecilia M. O'Kane, Thelma R. Craig, Vanessa Brown, David R. Thickett, Michael A. Matthay, Clifford C. Taggart, Janne T. Backman, J. Stuart Elborn, and Daniel F. McAuley

Simvastatin Decreases Lipopolysaccharide-induced Pulmonary Inflammation in Healthy Volunteers

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1107-1114. First published online March 26 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200810-1584OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

C. Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease:

Michelle L. Bell, Keita Ebisu, Roger D. Peng, Jonathan M. Samet, and Francesca Dominici

Hospital Admissions and Chemical Composition of Fine Particle Air Pollution

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1115-1120. First published online March 19 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200808-1240OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

D. Interstitial Lung Disease:

Ioannis Kotsianidis, Evangelia Nakou, Irene Bouchliou, Argyrios Tzouvelekis, Emmanouil Spanoudakis, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Ioannis Sotiriou, Vassilis Aidinis, Dimitrios Margaritis, Costas Tsatalas, and Demosthenes Bouros

Global Impairment of CD4⁺CD25⁺FOXP3⁺ Regulatory T Cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1121-1130. First published online April 2 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200812-1936OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

E. Lung Cancer and Oncologic Disorders:

Soon-Kyung Hwang, Hwang-Tae Lim, Arash Minai-Tehrani, Eun-Sun Lee, Jongmin Park, Seung Bum Park, George R. Beck, Jr., and Myung-Haing Cho

Repeated Aerosol Delivery of Carboxyl-terminal Modulator Protein Suppresses Tumor in the Lungs of K-ras^LA1 Mice

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1131-1140. First published online March 12 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200810-1553OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

Laura Paleari, Eva Negri, Alessia Catassi, Michele Cilli, Denis Servent, Rolando D'Angelillo, Alfredo Cesario, Patrizia Russo, and Massimo Fini

Inhibition of Nonneuronal 7-Nicotinic Receptor for Lung Cancer Treatment

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1141-1150. First published online January 16 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200806-908OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. Pulmonary Vascular Disease:

Christophe Guilluy, Saadia Eddahibi, Christian Agard, Christophe Guignabert, Mohamed Izikki, Ly Tu, Laurent Savale, Marc Humbert, Elie Fadel, Serge Adnot, Gervaise Loirand, and Pierre Pacaud

RhoA and Rho Kinase Activation in Human Pulmonary Hypertension: Role of 5-HT Signaling

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1151-1158. First published online March 19 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200805-691OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. Sleep and Control of Ventilation:

George T. O'Connor, Brian Caffo, Anne B. Newman, Stuart F. Quan, David M. Rapoport, Susan Redline, Helaine E. Resnick, Jonathan Samet, and Eyal Shahar

Prospective Study of Sleep-disordered Breathing and Hypertension: The Sleep Heart Health Study

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1159-1164. First published online March 5 2009 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200712-1809OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Jerome M. Reich

Pathogenesis of Lady Windermere Syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1165 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard D. Kim, David E. Greenberg, Kenneth N. Olivier, and Steven M. Holland

Pathogenesis of Lady Windermere Syndrome

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1165 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard M. Effros

Evidence for Airway Acidity and Oxidative Stress in Exhaled Breath Condensates from Grain Workers

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1166 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ron Do, Karen Bartlett, Helen Dimich-Ward, Winnie Chu, and Susan Kennedy

Evidence for Airway Acidity and Oxidative Stress in Exhaled Breath Condensates from Grain Workers

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1166-1167 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicoletta Carlo-Stella, Laura Belloli, Roberta Barbera, Camilla Gambaro, Giacomo Rando, Alberto Malesci, and Bianca Marasini

Gastroesophageal Reflux and Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1167 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edoardo Savarino, Massimo Ghio, Giorgio Sammito, Francesco Indiveri, and Vincenzo Savarino

Gastroesophageal Reflux and Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis

Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2009; 179: 1167-1168 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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