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:
  • 3952 Abstracts
  • 658 Slide presentations
  • 316 Webcasts
  • 96 Handouts
  • 1824 e-posters
  • 316 Multimedia files
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Animal models of pulmonary fibrosis: mechanisms and therapies

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: M. Kolb (Hamilton, Canada), R. Chambers (London, United Kingdom)
VEGF gene transfer enhances fibrosis but improves pulmonary hemodynamics in experimental pulmonary fibrosis
L. Farkas, K. Ask, A. Möller, D. Farkas, P. Margetts, J. Gauldie, M. Inman, M. Kolb (Hamilton, ON, Canada; Regensburg, Germany)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Aminoguanidine attenuates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats through inhibition of heat shock protein 47 and TGF-β1 expression
L. Chen, F. Q. Wen, T. Wang, X. Wang, D. S. Liu (Chengdu, Sichuan, China)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
The PDE4 inhibitor roflumilast reduced bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrotic and vascular remodeling in mice in vivo
R. Benito, J. Cortijo, E. Donet, M. Mauricio, D. Ivars, E. Morcillo (Valencia, Spain)
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Carbon nanoparticles (CN) are a dramatic trigger in the process of bleomycin-induced pleural and subpleural fibrosis
N. Decologne, G. Wettstein, C. Didelot, C. Garrido, P. Camus, P. Bonniaud (Dijon, France)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Inhibition of napsin A induces proSP-B accumulation and ER-stress: a novel mouse model for lung fibrosis
C. Ruppert, P. Mahavadi, T. Mokry, L. Schwertner, M. Korfei, I. Henneke, P. Markart, W. Seeger, A. Günther (Giessen, Germany)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Anti-fibrotic effect of telmisartan on bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in mice
K. Miyamoto, S. Tasaka, H. Kamata, H. Seki, Y. Nakano, W. Yamasawa, N. Hasegawa, S. Fujishima, A. Ishizaka (Tokyo, Japan)
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Circulating fibrocytes in interstitial lung disease
A. Fujiwara, H. Kobayashi, M. Masuya, A. Yamaguchi, T. Takagi, H. Nakahara, H. Fujimoto, T. Kobayashi, E. Gabazza, Y. Takei, O. Taguchi (Mie, Tsu City, Japan)
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Morphometric characteristic of pulmonary artery in COPD and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
L. M. Mikhaleva, A. L. Cherniayev, A. V. Bykanjva, M. V. Samsonova, T. G. Barkhina, G. V. Nekludova (Moscow, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Alveolar extracellular 20S proteasome in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
S. Sixt, J. Hakenbeck, M. Adamzik, D. Spyrka, B. Saul, B. Dahlmann, J. Peters (Essen, Berlin, Germany)
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Role of TGF-b1 in type I collagen production in bronchial epithelial cells: effects on Smad7 inhibitory role?
F. Magno, E. Jazrawi, P. Chou, G. La Rocca, B. Balbi, A. Di Stefano, I. Adcock (London, United Kingdom; Palermo, Veruno (NO), Italy)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Time course of lung parenchyma remodelling in different models of extrapulmonary acute lung injury
M. Chao, M. Oliveira, P. Silva, R. Santos, E. Parra, W. Teodoro, V. Capelozzi, P. Rocco (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in relation to the gene polymorphisms of TNF-alpha and TNFR II
N. Li, H. Dai, P. Xin, X. Li, L. V. Yueping, C. Wang (Beijing, China)
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Amifostine reduces lipopolysaccharide-induced lung dysfunction via suppression of redox-sensitive inflammatory signaling
A. Birukova, F. Fu, K. Birukov (Chicago, IL, United States Of America)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Efficacy of α-tocoferol in the treatment of patients with pneumonia
U. Farkhutdinov (Ufa, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Characterization of small airways structural alterations in acute respiratory distress syndrome
M. M. Morales, R. C. Pires-Neto, T. Lanças, L. F. F. Silva, N. Inforsato, T. Mauad, M. Dolhnikoff (São Paulo, Brazil)
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Processes of free radical oxidation in experimentally induced pneumonia
U. Farkhutdinov (Ufa, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Evidence of type II pneumocyte apoptosis in the murine model of Hermansky-Pudlak-syndrome associated interstitial pneumonia
P. Mahavadi, M. Korfei, I. Henneke, W. Seeger, A. Guenther, C. Ruppert (Giessen, Hessen, Germany)
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Pathological evaluation of the bleomycin induced lung injury in rats
M. Kontogiorgi, I. Agrogiannis, G. Tsoukalas, A. Papalois, E. Patsouris (Athens, Greece)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Capsaicin-sensitive nerves inactivation reduces lung parenchyma remodeling in guinea pigs with chronic allergic pulmonary inflammation
C. Prado, G. da Rocha, E. Leick-Maldonado, C. Starling, V. Capelozzi, M. Martins, I. Tibério (São Paulo – SP, Brazil)
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