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.

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New mechanisms in the pathogenesis of asthma and its response to treatment

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Chairs: X. Gao (Guangzhou, China), J. C. Virchow (Rostock, Germany)

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Changes in RANTES and ß-thromboglobulin after intensive exercise in patients with allergic asthma Z. Zietkowski, A. Bodzenta-Lukaszyk, M. M. Tomasiak, R. Skiepko (Bialystok, Poland)
Serum high sensitivity C-reactive protein can distinguish cough-variant and bronchial asthma T. Shimoda, M. Imaoka, R. Kishikawa, S. Shoji, S. Nishima, Y. Obase, A. Miyatake, S. Kasayama (Fukuoka, Kurashiki, Osaka, Japan)
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), an innate immunity initiator of Th2 inflammatory responses, is induced by viral stimuli in asthmatic epithelium. L. Uller, N. Bedeke, D. Sammut, B. Green, P. Howarth, S. Holgate, D. Davies (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Extracellular ATP triggers and maintains airway inflammation in human and murine models of asthma by activating dendritic cells M. Idzko, H. Hammad, H. Hoogsteden, D. Ferrari, F. Di Virigilo, C. Virchow, B. Lambrecht (Freiburg, Rostock, Germany; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Ferrara, Italy)
Arg16Gly polymorphism of the β₂-adrenergic receptor gene does not modulate clinical response to salmeterol in subjects with asthma E. Bleecker, H. Nelson, J. Corren, M. Kraft, S. Yancey, H. Ortega, D. Reilly, A. Emmett, W. Anderson (Winston Salem, NC, Denver, CO, Los Angeles, CA, Durham, NC, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States Of America)
The effect of single dose montelukast and desloratadine, alone and in combination, on the allergen induced late airway response in atopic asthma B. Davis, C. Illamperuma, G. Gauvreau, R. Watson, P. O‘Byrne, F. Deschesnes, L. P. Boulet, D. Cockcroft (Saskatoon, SK, Hamilton, ON, Quebec City, QC, Canada)
Improvement of allergic asthma symptoms by targeting STAT6 with siRNA H. Meinicke, Y. Darcan, G. Fels, U. Wahn, W. Henke, E. Hamelmann (Berlin, Germany)
Pharmacokinetics and local tolerance of an IL-4/IL-13 antagonist inhalation powder in humans E. Burmeister Getz, D. Wilbraham, C. Lalor, M. Longphre, R. Fuller (Berkeley, CA, United States Of America; London, United Kingdom)