Annual Congress Vienna 2003

Saturday, 27.09.2003
Sunday, 28.09.2003
Monday, 29.09.2003
Tuesday, 30.09.2003
Wednesday, 01.10.2003

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2003; 22: Suppl. 45, abstract number.

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Biology of COPD and asthma

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: P. Chanez (Montpellier, France), C. Witt (Berlin, Germany)

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The influence of cigarette smoke on MMPs and TIMPs in three dimensional epithelial mesenchymal coculture C. Noguchi, T. Umino, Y. Yoshizawa (Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Japan)
Lysophospholipids stimulate proliferation of rat primary airway fibroblasts K. Racké, C. Stichnote, F. Wenzel, M. Fuhrmann (Bonn, Germany)
Dexamethasone induces the expression of β₂-adrenergic receptors in Human macrophage/monocytic U937 cells P. A. Katsaounou, I. M. Adcock, P. J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)
Ligation of CD45 RA, RB, CD69, FAS and FAS-L results in caspase-3 activation in peripheral blood eosinophils M. G. Blaylock, G. M. Walsh (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Effects of steroids and b-mimetics on matrix metalloproteinases expression in human lung primary cells S. Goulet, M. P. Bihl, M. Roth, M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)
Cytokine receptor expression in bronchial bioptic material of patients with COPD C. Peiser, D. Lencer, N. Schönfeld, Q. T. Dinh, D. A. Groneberg, A. Fischer (Berlin, Germany)
Increased expression of P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 on peripheral blood leukocytes from subjects with COPD A. Schumacher, U. Liebers, M. John, G. Wolff, C. Witt (Berlin, Henningsdorf, Germany)
Expression of sialyl-Lewis x in asthmatic and normal airway epithelial cells S. Allahverdian, D. Dorscheid (Vancouver, Canada)
Production of macrophage-derived chemokine by alveolar macrophages from cigarette smokers H. Yanagawa, M. Azuma, C. Kitamuro, H. Ogawa, A. Sugita, S. Sone (Tokushima, Japan)
Genetic risks in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease A. Divac, A. Nikolic, N. Petrovic Stanojevic, V. Dopudja Pantic, D. Radojkovic, A. Savic (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
The study of bronchospastic eicosanoids levels in asthma and COPD I. Gross, J. Soja, M. Duplaga, K. Nagraba, A. Gielicz, J. Radwan, K. Sladek (Krakow, Poland)
Lack of glucocorticoid receptor activation by formoterol and salmeterol in human bronchial epithelial cells J. Lovén, K. Kristensson, A. Miller-Larsson, S. H. Korn (Lund, Sweden)
Rolipram and salmeterol block β₁/β₂-integrin-mediated adhesion of eosinophils to cultured airway smooth muscle cells from non-asthmatic and asthmatic donors N. M. Munoz, A. Y. Meliton, A. T. Lambertino, D. Fernandes, B. Camoretti-Mercado, J. Solway, X. Zhu, A. R. Leff (Chicago, United States Of America)
Eosinophil-induced intracellular signalling in cholinergic nerve cells M. T. Walsh, D. Curran, R. Costello (Dublin, Ireland)
Synergistic inhibition of salmeterol with fluticasone propionate or rolipram on stimulated eosinophil binding of β₂-integrin to ICAM-1 and cytosolic gIV-phospholipase A₂ activation A. R. Leff, J. Liu, S. Myo, A. Y. Meliton, X. Zhu, S. Myou, N. M. Munoz (Chicago, United States Of America)
Airway smooth muscle cells from asthmatic subjects lack CCAAT/enhancer binding protein alpha (C/EBPα) P. Borger, J. L. Black, M. Roth (Sydney, Australia; Basel, Switzerland)
Airway smooth muscle cells phenotype modulation in chronical obstructive type of lung insufficiency A. L. Zashikhin, J. Sehlin, A. M. Zashikhina (Arkhangelsk, Russia; Umea, Sweden)
Increased interleukin-5 mRNA expression and Bcl-2 depended eosinophils apoptosis suppression in atopic asthmatics I. I. Ivanchuk, A. E. Sazonov, E. S. Ageeva, F. I. Petrovski, L. M. Ogorodova, V. V. Novitskiy (Tomsk, Russia)