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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  • 374 Slide presentations
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Induction and modulation of lung cell damage

Poster Discussion
Chairs: J. Allen (Stoke-On-Trent, United Kingdom), S. Chlopicki (Krakow, Poland)
Thoracic trauma-induced alterations of rat alveolar macrophage function
K. Eichert, C. Sievers, R. Lucas, A. Wendel, J. Hamacher (Konstanz, Germany)
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Thorax trauma-induced pulmonary oedema in rats is ameliorated by terbutaline
K. Eichert, C. Braun, R. Lucas, A. Wendel, J. Hamacher (Konstanz, Germany)
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Endotoxin reduces VEGF receptor-2 in mouse lung and heart
A. Kanda, S. Ebihara, H. Takahashi, H. Sasaki (Sendai, Japan)
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Effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) priming on Candida-induced acute lung injury (ALI)
M. Nakanishi, Y. Iwasaki, S. Ohsugi, H. Kuwahara, Y. Takemura, K. Nagata, A. Natsuhara, H. Harada, I. Yokomura, M. Nakagawa (Kyoto-city, Japan)
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The evaluation of the effects of positive-pressure ventilation on lung injury utilizing pathological models of previously injured lung
T. Hirano, K. Matsunaga, M. Nakanishi, T. Nishimoto, H. Nakanishi, Y. Yamagata, T. Yamagata, Y. Minakata, M. Mune, S. Yukawa (Wakayama, Japan)
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The innate immunity protein lactoferrin is cleaved and inactivated by cathepsins
M. Rogan, C. C. Taggart, S. O'Neill, N. G. McElvaney (Dublin, Ireland)
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Cigarette smoking induces pulmonary oxidative and nitrosative stresses in vivo relationship to mouse strain
R. M. Marrades, Y. Hoshino, A. Triantafillopoulos, S. N. A. Hussain, M. G. Cosio (Barcelona, Spain; Montreal, Canada)
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Inhibition of fibrinolysis stimulates alveolar wound repair in vitro
C. C. Van Leer, M. Stutz, A. Haeberli, T. K. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland)
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Characterisation of rodent orthologues of the anti-inflammatory/anti-microbial bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI): A central mediator of innate immunity
C. D. Bingle, L. Bingle, S. Havard, J. Craven (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
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Regulation of angiopoietin-2 production by inflammatory stimuli
S. Tsigkos, A. Kotanidou, C. Roussos, A. Papapetropoulos (Athens, Greece)
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Bio-phenotypes of circulating, recruiting, and migrated leukocytes in acute lung injury induced by acute pancreatitis and abdominal sepsis
X. Zhao, M. Dib, R. Andersson, E. Andersson, X. Wang (Lund, Sweden)
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Mechanical stretch induced apoptosis and non-apoptotic cell death in alveolar type II cells and its modulation by captopril and L-arginin
S. Hammerschmidt, H. Kuhn, T. Grasenack, C. Gessner, K. Buttner, M. Twaroschk, J. Schauer, H. Wirtz (Leipzig, Germany)
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Apoptosis and non-apoptotic cell death induced by mechanical stress in alveolar type II cells and pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells
H. Kuhn, S. Hammerschmidt, W. Karen, W. Kirsten, J. Schauer, H. Wirtz (Leipzig, Germany)
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Primary and secondary necrosis as local determinants of LPS-induced airway inflammation
K. Rydell, L. Uller, C. G. A. Persson, J. S. Erjefält (Lund, Sweden)
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Integrins αv and β3 in acute lung inflammation
K. S. Janardhan, B. Singh (Saskatoon, Canada)
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Interleukin-22 (IL-22) in inflammatory lung disease
H. A. Whittington, K. J. Hunter, A. B. Millar (Bristol, United Kingdom)
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Endobronchial biopsy neutrophilia, IL-8, ENA-78 and neutrophil chemokine receptor (CXCR1 and CXCR2) gene expression in severe exacerbations of asthma
Y. Qiu, J. Zhu, V. Bandi, K. K. Guntupalli, A. E. Fraire, P. K. Jeffery (London, United Kingdom; Houston, Worcester, United States Of America)
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Relationship between Ca19.9 levels in bronchoalveolar lavage, neutrophilic alveolitis, pulmonary function tests and HRCT pattern in pulmonary fibrosis
G. Brunetti, P. Pignatti, L. Bacchella, A. Balestrino, S. Nava, P. Pisati, A. Bossi, A. De Stefano, B. Balbi, G. Moscato (Pavia, Italy)
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Altered expression of toll-like receptor (TLR)-2 and TLR-4 on alveolar macrophages (AM) in inflammatory lung disease
L. Armstrong, K. J. Hunter, A. B. Millar (Bristol, United Kingdom)
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Intra-hemodialytic hypotension induces tumour necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) production to activate neutrophil mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in critical Ill patients
C. K. Yang, H. C. Lin, C. T. Huang, H. P. Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan)
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