Annual Congress Berlin 2008

Saturday, 04.10.2008
Sunday, 05.10.2008
Monday, 06.10.2008
Tuesday, 07.10.2008
Wednesday, 08.10.2008

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, abstract number.


Material from 2008:
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  • 658 Slide presentations
  • 316 Webcasts
  • 96 Handouts
  • 1824 e-posters
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Novel trends in functional genomics and molecular pathology of neoplastic and non-neoplastic lung diseases

E-Communication Session
Chairs: D. S. Postma (Groningen, The Netherlands), B. Housset (Creteil Cedex, France)
Host-derived osteopontin is important for malignant pleural effusion formation
I. Psallidas, G. T. Stathopoulos, C. Moschos, A. Kollintza, S. Karabela, P. Theodoropoulou, S. A. Papiris, C. Roussos, I. Kalomenidis (Athens, Greece)
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Association of inflammatory mediator gene polymorphisms (IL1B, TNFA, LTA, IL8, IL6, IL1RN, IL10, TGFb, TLR4, DBP) with chronic lung disease in children
G. Korytina, O. Celousova, L. Akhmadishina, T. Victorova (Ufa, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Forced chemokine ligand 2 overexpression renders melanoma cells capable of inducing experimental malignant pleural effusion
G. T. Stathopoulos, I. Psallidas, A. Moustaki, C. Moschos, A. Kollintza, S. Karabela, I. Porfyridis, S. Vassiliou, M. Karatza, Z. Zhou, M. Joo, T. S. Blackwell, C. Roussos, D. Graf, I. Kalomenidis (Athens, Vari, Greece; Nashville, TN, United States Of Ame
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Short interfering RNA directed against TWIST, a novel zinc finger transcription factor, increases A549 cell sensitivity to cisplatin via MAPK / mitochondrial pathway
W. L. Zhuo, Y. Wang, X. L. Zhuo, Z. T. Chen (Chongqing, China)
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Effect of smoking on microRNA expression profile in the lung
I. Yang, S. Savarimuthu Francis, M. Davidson, J. Larsen, P. Zimmerman, R. Bowman, N. Hayward, K. Fong (Brisbane, Australia)
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Remodelling of extracellular matrix (ECM) differs between tumor centre and invasion front in human non-small cell lung cancer: immunohistochemistry and morphometry of matrix proteins (MP), matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), and tissue inhibitors of MMPs (T
E. Herpel, C. Schopf, A. Warth, F. J. F. Herth, P. A. Schnabel, P. Schirmacher, H. Hoffmann, M. Thomas, D. Kieslich de Hol (Heidelberg, Germany)
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Roles for SERPINE2 in pulmonary homeostasis in mice
S. Srisuma, T. Mariani (Bangkok, Thailand; Rochester, NY, United States Of America)
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Cytotoxic T cell lymphocyte-associated 4 (CTLA4) polymorphisms in UK sarcoidosis patients
A. Lagan, A. Abdallah, P. Spagnolo, R. du Bois, K. Welsh, A. Wells, H. Sato (London, United Kingdom)
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Free plasmatic circulating DNA as prognostic and diagnostic lung cancer biomarker
M. Paci, S. Maramotti, E. Bellesia, D. Formisano, T. Ricchetti, V. Annessi, G. Ferrari, C. Carbonelli, L. Zucchi, G. Sgarbi (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
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Association of the 3A/4A (134delA) and Lys198Asn polymorphisms of the endothelin-1 gene with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
F. Sampsonas, A. Antonacopoulou, C. Flordellis, H. Kalofonos, K. Spiropoulos (Patras, Greece)
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Adrenergic regulation of the lung inflammatory response
P. A. Ward, M. A. Flierl, D. Rittirsch, J. V. Sarma, F. S. Zetoune (Ann Arbor, MI, United States Of America)
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The role of GSTT1 and GSTM1 in the risk of bronchial asthma (BA) formation in early kids, born by BA females
O. Lavrova, M. Petrova, T. Ivaschenko, M. Vaxarlovskaja (Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation)
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Quantitative RT-PCR 3-gene expression signature predicts survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients (pts)
M. Skrzypski, E. Jassem, M. Taron, G. Gulida, W. Rzyman, S. Benlloch, J. J. Sanchez, R. Rosell, J. Jassem (Gdansk, Poland; Barcelona, Madrid, Spain)
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Lipid metabolite levels recovered from BAL fluid correlate with lung function of COPD patients and controls
E. Csanky, R. Ruhl, A. Vako, L. Takacs, W. Hempel (Debrecen, Hungary; Evry, France)
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Dynamic global gene expression shows mitigation of the effects of cigarette smoke extract by antioxidants in airway cells
M. Moffatt, K. Xu, L. Hao, L. Donnelly, W. Cookson (London, United Kingdom)
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Exposure time and pressure-related correlation of hyperbaric oxygen induced oxidative stress in rat lung
S. Oter, A. Korkmaz, S. Sadir, S. Gumus, O. Deniz, H. Ay, T. Topal, H. Bilgic (Ankara, Turkey)
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Apoptosis regulatory protein (p53, Bcl-2, survivin) expression in lung cancer-preliminary study
I. Porebska, E. Sobanska, E. Wyrodek, M. Kosacka, R. Jankowska (Wroclaw, Poland)
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Gene expression profiling in peripheral blood in COPD
P. Ausin, E. Luesink, J. Kehren, P. Lloyd, P. Barnes, S. Kharitonov (London, United Kingdom; Basle, Switzerland; Barcelona, Spain)
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A haplotype of HLA-class II and BTNL2 associates with the diagnosis of extrinsic allergic alveolitis (EAA)
C. H. M. van Moorsel, J. C. Grutters, V. L. J. Karthaus, H. J. T. Ruven, J. M. M. van den Bosch (Nieuwegein, Netherlands)
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The role of MMP1, MMP3 and MMP12 in the respiratory phenotype of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
C. McAloon, A. Wood, S. Gough, R. Stockley (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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