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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Novel mechanisms and targets of molecular pulmonary pathology

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: J. Chorostowska-Wynimko (Warsaw, Poland), S. O'Neill (Dublin 9, Ireland)
The diagnostic value of matrix metalloproteinases -8 and -9 in pleural effusions
S. Oikonomidi, I. Tsilioni, K. Gourgoulianis, T. Kiropoulos (Larissa, Greece)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Z α1-antitrypsin: crystal structure and mechanism of polymerisation
A. Zhou, R. Carrell (Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Heat shock proteins 70 and 90 expression in peripheral lung of COPD patients
G. Caramori, P. Casolari, P. Kirkham, J. Marwick, M. Contoli, A. Zanforlin, K. Ito, K. F. Chung, P. J. Barnes, I. M. Adcock, A. Papi (Ferrara, Italy; Horsham, London, United Kingdom)
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Serum levels of proangiogenic factors before and after the correction of severe hypoxemia in COPD patients
G. Pavlisa, V. Vrbanic, T. Alfirevic-Ungarov, T. Jalusic-Gluncic, R. Sarac, S. Ostojic Kolonic (Zagreb, Croatia)
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H.Pylori DNA in paraffin embedded lung biopsy of patients with IPF
F. Mohammadi, L. Mohammadi Ziazi, S. A. Nadji, S. Karimi, Z. MohammadTaheri, M. Poorabdolah, J. HamidReza, M. Bahadori (Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran)
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ADAMTS-1 metalloproteinase promotes tumor development through the induction of a stromal reaction in vivo
N. Rocks, G. Paulissen, F. Quesada-Calvo, M. L. Alvarez-Gonzalez, M. Gueders, J. Hacha, C. Gilles, J. M. Foidart, A. Noel, D. Cataldo (Liege, Belgium)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
An immunohistochemistry (IHC) assessemnt of NSCLC cases
F. Pop, G. Barbulescu, L. Badulescu (Bucharest, Romania)
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A novel vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit-1 (VKORC1) mutation and the risk of bleeding
F. Fahimi, S. Baniasadi, B. Kazemi, N. Behzadnia, B. Shafaghi, S. Beizaee, M. Bandehpour (Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran)
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PTGER4, a promising novel DNA methylation marker for lung cancer measured in a clinical case control study using blood plasma
B. Schmidt, V. Liebenberg, T. DeVos, J. Distler, R. Tetzner, A. Seegebarth, S. Weickmann, C. Witt, M. Fleischhacker (Berlin, Berlin/Seattle, Germany)
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New aspects of COPD ethiopathogenesis
V. Kobylyansky, I. Ivanov, E. Gamal, G. Babadzhanova, T. Petrova (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation)
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High serum levels of YKL-40 in IPF
N. M. Korthagen, C. H. M. van Moorsel, N. P. Barlo, H. J. T. Ruven, J. M. M. van den Bosch, J. C. Grutters (Nieuwegein, Netherlands)
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Diagnostic value of IL-8 in differentiating between exudative and transudative pleural effusion
M. Elshazly, K. Hasanein, B. Elkholi, M. Ghanem (Cairo, Alexandria, Egypt)
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Different expression of miRNA in non-small cell lung cancer according to its clinical stage
A. Huerta, A. Navarro, R. Marrades, A. Quera, N. Viñolas, J. Ramirez, C. Agusti, E. Gallardo, A. Torres, M. Monzo (Barcelona, Spain)
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Increased expression of Lipocalin2 suppresses allergen-induced airway disease in mice
M. Krokowski, H. A. Meyer, A. Dittrich, J. Cowland, E. Hamelmann (Berlin, Hannover, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Analysis of cytokine signaling pathway JAK-STAT through their activation in patients with asthma
V. Mineev, L. Sorokina, M. Radionova, M. Hudoley, V. Trofimov (Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Extrapulmonary effects of inhaled ultrafine carbon particles in mice
T. Stoeger, D. Ettehadieh, S. Takenaka, H. Schulz (München/Neuherberg, Germany)
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Levels of TNF-alpha, IL-6, sICAM-1, sVCAM-1 in NSCLC patients plazma
U. Kopeika, P. Tretjakovs, I. Bormane, J. Basko, N. Jakushenko (Riga, Latvia)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Oxidative stress and pleural effusions
I. Tsilioni, S. Oikonomidi, K. Gourgoulianis, T. Kiropoulos (Larissa, Greece)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Evidence for a stimulating effect of hyperbaric oxygen on the transcription rate of Cu/Zn-SOD in rat lung
S. Oter, A. Korkmaz, S. Sadir, S. Gumus, O. Deniz, R. Ogur, H. Yaman, H. Bilgic (Ankara, Turkey)
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