AJRCCM -- Table of Contents (July 15 2006, 174 [2])

EDITORIALS:

Andrew Bush and Thomas Ferkol: Movement: The Emerging Genetics of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 109-110 [Full Text] [PDF]

Peter Mattei and Julian L. Allen: Treatment of Empyema in Children: From Hippocrates' Time to the Present, and Back Again; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 110-111 [Full Text] [PDF]

David A. Beuther, Scott T. Weiss, and E. Rand Sutherland: Obesity and Asthma; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 112-119. First published online April 20 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200602-231PP [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Nada Hornef, Heike Olbrich, Judit Horvath, Maimoona A. Zariwala, Manfred Fliegauf, Niki Tomas Loges, Johannes Wildhaber, Peadar G. Noone, Marcus Kennedy, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Jean-Louis Blouin, Lucia Bartoloni, Thomas Nüsslein, Peter Ahrens, Matthias Griese, Heiner Kuhl, Ralf Sudbrak, Michael R. Knowles, Richard Reinhardt, and Heymut Omran: DNAH5 Mutations Are a Common Cause of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia with Outer Dynein Arm Defects; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 120-126. First published online April 20 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200601-084OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Rekha Chaudhuri, Eric Livingston, Alex D. McMahon, Jane Lafferty, Iona Fraser, Mark Spears, Charles P. McSharry, and Neil C. Thomson: Effects of Smoking Cessation on Lung Function and Airway Inflammation in Smokers with Asthma; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 127-133. First published online April 27 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200510-1589OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Mark Hew, Pankaj Bhavsar, Alfons Torrego, Sally Meah, Nadia Khorasani, Peter J. Barnes, Ian Adcock, and Kian Fan Chung for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program: Relative Corticosteroid Insensitivity of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Severe Asthma; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 134-141. First published online April 13 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200512-1930OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Takumi Kiwamoto, Yukio Ishii, Yuko Morishima, Keigyou Yoh, Atsuko Maeda, Kazusa Ishizaki, Takashi Iizuka, Ahmed E. Hegab, Yosuke Matsuno, Shinsuke Homma, Akihiro Nomura, Tohru Sakamoto, Satoru Takahashi, and Kiyohisa Sekizawa: Transcription Factors T-bet and GATA-3 Regulate Development of Airway Remodeling; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 142-151. First published online April 13 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200601-079OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Johanna E. Korf, Gwenda Pynaert, Kurt Tournoy, Tom Boonefaes, Antoon Van Oosterhout, Daisy Ginneberge, Anuschka Haegeman, Jan A. Verschoor, Patrick De Baetselier, and Johan Grooten: Macrophage Reprogramming by Mycolic Acid Promotes a Tolerogenic Response in Experimental Asthma; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 152-160. First published online May 4 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200507-1175OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Kyung Sun Lee, Kyung Hoon Min, So Ri Kim, Seoung Ju Park, Hee Sun Park, Gong Yong Jin, and Yong Chul Lee: Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Modulates Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Expression in Asthma; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 161-170. First published online April 27 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200510-1558OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Christophe Baillard, Jean-Philippe Fosse, Mustapha Sebbane, Gérald Chanques, Francçois Vincent, Patricia Courouble, Yves Cohen, Jean-Jacques Eledjam, Frédéric Adnet, and Samir Jaber: Noninvasive Ventilation Improves Preoxygenation before Intubation of Hypoxic Patients; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 171-177. First published online April 20 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200509-1507OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Ettore Crimi, Haibo Zhang, Robin N. N. Han, Lorenzo Del Sorbo, V.Marco Ranieri, and Arthur S. Slutsky: Ischemia and Reperfusion Increases Susceptibility to Ventilator-induced Lung Injury in Rats; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 178-186. First published online April 27 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200507-1178OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Eftichia Galiatsou, Eleonora Kostanti, Eugenia Svarna, Athanasios Kitsakos, Vasilios Koulouras, Stauros C. Efremidis, and Georgios Nakos: Prone Position Augments Recruitment and Prevents Alveolar Overinflation in Acute Lung Injury; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 187-197. First published online April 27 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200506-899OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Alexander Raddatz, Darius Kubulus, Johannes Winning, Inge Bauer, Sascha Pradarutti, Beate Wolf, Sascha Kreuer, and Hauke Rensing: Dobutamine Improves Liver Function after Hemorrhagic Shock through Induction of Heme Oxygenase-1; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 198-207. First published online April 20 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200508-1221OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Hartmut Grasemann, Fionn Kurtz, and Felix Ratjen: Inhaled L-Arginine Improves Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Pulmonary Function in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 208-212. First published online April 20 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200509-1439OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Timothy D. Starner, Niu Zhang, GunHee Kim, Michael A. Apicella, and Paul B. McCray, Jr.: Haemophilus influenzae Forms Biofilms on Airway Epithelia: Implications in Cystic Fibrosis; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 213-220. First published online May 4 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200509-1459OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Samatha Sonnappa, Gordon Cohen, Catherine M. Owens, Carin van Doorn, John Cairns, Sanja Stanojevic, Martin J. Elliott, and Adam Jaffé: Comparison of Urokinase and Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Treatment of Childhood Empyema; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 221-227. First published online May 4 2006 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200601-027OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rogério Souza, Carlos Jardim, and Carlos Carvalho: The Need for National Registries in Rare Diseases; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 228 [Full Text] [PDF]

Marc Humbert, and Gérald Simonneau on behalf of the French Network on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: The Need for National Registries in Rare Diseases; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 228a-229 [Full Text] [PDF]

Anton H. van Kaam and Mariëtte B. van Veenendaal: Oxygenation as an Indicator for the Optimal Lung Volume in Ventilated Newborn Infants: Useful or Useless?; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 229 [Full Text] [PDF]

David G. Tingay, John F. Mills, Colin J. Morley, Anastasia Pellicano, and Peter A. Dargaville: Oxygenation as an Indicator for the Optimal Lung Volume in Ventilated Newborn Infants: Useful or Useless?; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2006; 174: 229a-230 [Full Text] [PDF]