ERJ Open Research

The journal was created to help fulfil the ERS objective to disseminate scientific and educational material to its members and to the medical community, but also to provide researchers with an affordable open access specialty journal in which to publish their work.

January

London Calling

Key paediatric messages from the 2016 European Respiratory Society International Congress Jonathan Grigg, Ian M. Balfour-Lynn, Mark Everard, Graham Hall, Bülent Karadag, Kostas Priftis, Charles Christoph Roehr, Bart L. Rottier, Fabio Midulla ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00127-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00127-2016

Review

Systematic review of interventions to improve patient uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD Arwel W. Jones, Abigail Taylor, Holly Gowler, Noel O'Kelly, Sudip Ghosh, Christopher Bridle ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00089-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00089-2016

Original articles

Multiple large clusters of tuberculosis in London: a cross-sectional analysis of molecular and spatial data Catherine M. Smith, Helen Maguire, Charlotte Anderson, Neil Macdonald, Andrew C. Hayward ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00098-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00098-2016
What patients with pulmonary fibrosis and their partners think: a live, educative survey in the Netherlands and Germany Mirjam J.G. van Manen, Michael Kreuter, Bernt van den Blink, Ute Oltmanns, Karin Palmowski, Eva Brunnemer, Simone Hummler, Nelleke C. Tak, Leon van den Toorn, Jelle Miedema, Henk C. Hoogsteden, Marlies S. Wijsenbeek ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00065-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00065-2016
Cardiopulmonary response during whole-body vibration training in patients with severe COPD Rainer Gloeckl, Petra Richter, Sandra Winterkamp, Michael Pfeifer, Christoph Nell, Jeffrey W. Christle, Klaus Kenn ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00101-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00101-2016
Lung volume recruitment acutely increases respiratory system compliance in individuals with severe respiratory muscle weakness Yannick Molgat-Seon, Liam M. Hannan, Paolo B. Dominelli, Carli M. Peters, Renee J. Fougere, Douglas A. McKim, A. William Sheel, Jeremy D. Road ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00135-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00135-2016
Increased incidence of adult pneumococcal pneumonia during school holiday periods Priya Daniel, Chamira Rodrigo, Thomas Bewick, Carmen Sheppard, Sonia Greenwood, Tricia M. McKeever, Mary Slack, Wei Shen Lim ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00100-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00100-2016
A comparison of published multidimensional indices to predict outcome in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Charles Sharp, Huzaifa I. Adamali, Ann B. Millar ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00096-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00096-2016
Psychological profile of individuals presenting with chronic cough Katrin Hulme, Vincent Deary, Sian Dogan, Sean M. Parker ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00099-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00099-2016
Discordance in investigator-reported and adjudicated sudden death in TIOSPIR Robert A. Wise, Peter R. Kowey, George Austen, Achim Mueller, Norbert Metzdorf, Andy Fowler, Lorcan P. McGarvey ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00073-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00073-2016
The effects of exogenous lipid on THP-1 cells: an in vitro model of airway aspiration? Yvette A. Hayman, Laura R. Sadofsky, James D. Williamson, Simon P. Hart, Alyn H. Morice ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00026-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00026-2016
MMP-7 is a predictive biomarker of disease progression in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Yasmina Bauer, Eric S. White, Simon de Bernard, Peter Cornelisse, Isabelle Leconte, Adele Morganti, Sebastien Roux, Oliver Nayler ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00074-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00074-2016
Is individual smoking behaviour influenced by area-level ethnic density? A cross-sectional electronic health database study of inner south-east London Rohini Mathur, Peter Schofield, Dianna Smith, Alexander Gilkes, Patrick White, Sally Hull ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00130-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00130-2016
Effects of bile acids on human airway epithelial cells: implications for aerodigestive diseases Adil Aldhahrani, Bernard Verdon, Chris Ward, Jeffery Pearson ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00107-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00107-2016
Transbronchial cryobiopsy in interstitial lung disease: experience in 106 cases – how to do it Antonio Bango-Álvarez, Miguel Ariza-Prota, Hector Torres-Rivas, Luis Fernández-Fernández, Amador Prieto, Inmaculada Sánchez, Maria Gil, Ana Pando-Sandoval ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00148-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00148-2016
Evaluation of the efficacy of cisplatin–etoposide and the role of thoracic radiotherapy and prophylactic cranial irradiation in LCNEC Arsela Prelaj, Sara Elena Rebuzzi, Gabriella Del Bene, Julio Rodrigo Giròn Berrìos, Alessandra Emiliani, Lucilla De Filippis, Alessandra Anna Prete, Silvia Pecorari, Gaia Manna, Carla Ferrara, Daniele Rossini, Flavia Longo ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00128-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00128-2016
Pro-tumoural CXCL10/CXCR3-A autocrine loop in invasive mucinous lung adenocarcinoma Michaël Duruisseaux, Nathalie Rabbe, Martine Antoine, Thibault Vieira, Virginie Poulot, Jacques Cadranel, Marie Wislez ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00047-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00047-2016
Lung function and disease severity in cystic fibrosis patients heterozygous for p.Arg117His Michal Shteinberg, Damian G. Downey, Diane Beattie, John McCaughan, Alastair Reid, Nili Stein, J. Stuart Elborn ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00056-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00056-2016

Original research letters

ß-blockers in exacerbations of COPD: feasibility of a randomised controlled trial Catherina L. Chang, Conroy Wong, Lutz Beckert, Eskandarain Shafuddin, Richard Beasley, Robert Young, Robert J. Hancox ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00090-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00090-2016
Adherence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to cystic fibrosis buccal epithelial cells Meike Lingner, Susanne Herrmann, Burkhard Tümmler ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00095-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00095-2016
Comprehensive evaluation of airway involvement in pulmonary sarcoidosis Kiminobu Tanizawa, Tomohiro Handa, Sonoko Nagai, Akio Niimi, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Takeshi Kubo, Yutaka Ito, Kensaku Aihara, Kohei Ikezoe, Hisako Matsumoto, Toyohiro Hirai, Kazuo Chin, Michiaki Mishima ERJ Open Res, 3 (1) 00105-2016; 10.1183/23120541.00105-2016