Annual Congress Berlin 2001

Saturday, 22.09.2001
Sunday, 23.09.2001
Monday, 24.09.2001
Tuesday, 25.09.2001
Wednesday, 26.09.2001

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2004; 18: Suppl. 33, abstract number.

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Analyses of airway secretions, biopsies and serum in airway disease

Poster Discussion
Chairs: P. Hiemstra (Leiden, The Netherlands), R. Djukanovic (Southampton, UK)

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The effect of sputum processing on tumour necrosis factor (TNFα), secretory leukoprotease inhibitor (SLPI), interleukin-6 and leukotriene-B4 (LTB₄) in chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis I. S. Woolhouse, D. L. Bayley, R. A. Stockley (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
IL-8 in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease A. D. Komlev, S. A. Sobchenko, O. V. Korovina, I. I. Ogneva, O. S. Suprun (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Relationship between interleukin 8 (IL-8) and markers of cell death in airway secretions of healthy volunteers M. G. Kelly, V. Brown, S. Brockbank, M. Ennis, J. S. Elborn (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Increased expression of perforin in sputum CD8⁺ cells of smokers with COPD G. Chrysofakis, N. Tzanakis, D. Kyriakou, I. Tsiligianni, M. E. Froudarakis, D. Bouros, N. M. Siafakas (Heraklion, Greece)
Increased sputum concentrations of total glutathion in patients with COPD who quit smoking J. Beier, K. M. Beeh, O. Kornmann, P. Micke, R. Buhl (Mainz, Germany)
Sputum induction: risk factors for airway constriction in steroid naive asthmatics E. Pizzichini, L. Jayaram, P. Hussack, A. Efthimiadis, L. J. Steidle, S. C. Ferreira, P. Moritz, F. E. Hargreave, M. M. M. Pizzichini (Florianópolis-SC, Brazil; Hamilton, Canada)
Sputum induction with aerosolized hypertonic saline for automated sputum cytometry (ASC) W. Marek, S. Peters, A. Muti, B. Khanavkar, F. Nensa, J. A. Nakhosteen (Bochum, Germany)
³¹P-NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF-Mass spectrometry in the analysis of surfactant phospholipids S. Hammerschmidt, J. Schiller, T. Sandvoß, J. Schauer, J. Arnhold, H. Wirtz (Leipzig, Germany)
Physiological correlations between urea and total protein in breath condensate, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and serum (animal model) P. Reinhold, A. Langenberg, E. Grossmann, M. Rothe, G. Becher (Jena, Berlin, Germany)
Urea concentration in the breath condensate and in serum before and after acute lung inflammation (animal model) P. Reinhold, A. Langenberg, J. Seifert, M. Rothe, G. Becher (Jena, Berlin, Germany)
The alteration of some lipid peroxidation and antioxidant defense indexes in exhaled air condensate at patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis D. L. Ivashkevich, A. E. Makarevich (Minsk, Belarus)
Effect of tidal volume and end expiratory pressure on pulmonary NO-release in an isolated lung model S. Hammerschmidt, M. Meybaum, J. Schauer, H. Wirtz (Leipzig, Germany)
Factors affecting glucose concentrations in human nasal secretions J. X. Meguer, L. A. King, B. J. Philips, E. H. Baker (London, United Kingdom)
Interleukin-18, interleukin-12, interferon γ and interleukin-18 receptor expression is decreased in the recovery phase of pulmonary sarcoidosis G. J. Meachery, C. Greene, S. J. O'Neill, N. G. McElvaney (Dublin, Ireland)
Antifibrotic role of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in fibrosing interstial lung diseases M. Faehling, M. Bachem, D. Anders, X. Kapfer, G. Trischler, M. Hetzel (Ulm, Germany)
Serum KL-6 and SP-D as useful clinical indicators of interstitial changes and pulmonary functional abnormality in patients with Sjogren's syndrome K. Yoshida, K. Yamauchi, T. Nakadate, T. Mouri, H. Ito, Y. Ninomiya, E. Chida, H. Inoue (Morioka, Japan)
Activation and localization of transcription factor, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), in bronchiectasis in vivo L. Zheng, W. K. Lam, I. H. Shum, G. L. Tipoe, C. Yan, J. Sun, M. S. Ip, K. W. Tsang (Hong Kong, China)
Expression of respiratory mucins in fatal status asthmaticus and mild asthma D. A. Groneberg, P. R. Eynott, T. Oates, R. Wu, I. Carlstedt, A. G. Nicholson, K. F. Chung (Berlin, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Davis, United States Of America; Lund, Sweden)
Concentration of NO2-, a-acid protein (AAP), tumor necrotic factor (TNF-a), in the induced sputum of patients with bronchial asthma(BA) and chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) V. A. Nevzorova, E. N. Konovalova, T. N. Surovenko (Vladivostok, Russia)
Cell composition of induced sputum of patients with bronchial asthma(BA) and chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) V. A. Nevzorova, E. N. Konovalova, C. A. Pazych (Vladivostok, Russia)