AJRCCM -- Table of Contents (June 1 2008, 177 [11])

EDITORIALS:

Morten Dahl: Biomarkers for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Surfactant Protein D and C-Reactive Protein; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1177-1178 [Full Text] [PDF]

Charlie Strange and James R. Seibold: Scleroderma Lung Disease: "If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Any Road Will Take You There"; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1178-1179 [Full Text] [PDF]

PULMONARY PERSPECTIVE:

Maria Tsoumakidou, Ingel K. Demedts, Guy G. Brusselle, and Peter K. Jeffery: Dendritic Cells in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: New Players in an Old Game; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1180-1186. First published online March 12 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200711-1727PP [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ARTICLES:

A. Airway Biology:

Louisa E. N. Rees, Laszlo Pazmany, Danuta Gutowska-Owsiak, Charlotte F. Inman, Anne Phillips, Christopher R. Stokes, Nikki Johnston, Jamie A. Koufman, Gregory Postma, Michael Bailey, and Martin A. Birchall: The Mucosal Immune Response to Laryngopharyngeal Reflux; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1187-1193. First published online March 6 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200706-895OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

B. Asthma and Allergy:

Joshua Galanter, Shweta Choudhry, Celeste Eng, Sylvette Nazario, José R. Rodríguez-Santana, Jesús Casal, Alfonso Torres-Palacios, Jorge Salas, Rocio Chapela, H. Geoffrey Watson, Kelley Meade, Michael LeNoir, William Rodríguez-Cintrón, Pedro C. Avila, and Esteban González Burchard: ORMDL3 Gene Is Associated with Asthma in Three Ethnically Diverse Populations; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1194-1200. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200711-1644OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

C. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

Harvey O. Coxson, Brendan Quiney, Don D. Sin, Li Xing, Annette M. McWilliams, John R. Mayo, and Stephen Lam: Airway Wall Thickness Assessed Using Computed Tomography and Optical Coherence Tomography; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1201-1206. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200712-1776OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Don D. Sin, S. F. Paul Man, Darcy D. Marciniuk, Gordon Ford, Mark FitzGerald, Eric Wong, Ernest York, Rajesh R. Mainra, Warren Ramesh, Lyle S. Melenka, Eric Wilde, Robert L. Cowie, Dave Williams, Wen Q. Gan, and Roxanne Rousseau for the ABC (Advair, Biomarkers in COPD) Investigators: The Effects of Fluticasone with or without Salmeterol on Systemic Biomarkers of Inflammation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1207-1214. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200709-1356OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

D. Critical Care:

William Checkley, Roy Brower, Anna Korpak, and B. Taylor Thompson for the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network Investigators: Effects of a Clinical Trial on Mechanical Ventilation Practices in Patients with Acute Lung Injury; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1215-1222. First published online March 20 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200709-1424OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Alexander Hoetzel, Tamas Dolinay, Simone Vallbracht, Yingze Zhang, Hong Pyo Kim, Emeka Ifedigbo, Sean Alber, A. Murat Kaynar, Rene Schmidt, Stefan W. Ryter, and Augustine M. K. Choi: Carbon Monoxide Protects against Ventilator-induced Lung Injury via PPAR- ${gamma}$ and Inhibition of Egr-1; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1223-1232. First published online March 20 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200708-1265OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Philipp von Bismarck, Carlos-Francisco García Wistädt, Karsten Klemm, Supandi Winoto-Morbach, Ulrike Uhlig, Stefan Schütze, Dieter Adam, Burkhard Lachmann, Stefan Uhlig, and Martin F. Krause: Improved Pulmonary Function by Acid Sphingomyelinase Inhibition in a Newborn Piglet Lavage Model; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1233-1241. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200705-752OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Sachin Yende, Gina D'Angelo, John A. Kellum, Lisa Weissfeld, Jonathan Fine, Robert D. Welch, Lan Kong, Melinda Carter, and Derek C. Angus for the GenIMS Investigators: Inflammatory Markers at Hospital Discharge Predict Subsequent Mortality after Pneumonia and Sepsis; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1242-1247. First published online March 27 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200712-1777OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

E. Interstitial Lung Disease:

Nicole S. L. Goh, Sujal R. Desai, Srihari Veeraraghavan, David M. Hansell, Susan J. Copley, Toby M. Maher, Tamera J. Corte, Clare R. Sander, Jonathan Ratoff, Anand Devaraj, Gracijela Bozovic, Christopher P. Denton, Carol M. Black, Roland M. du Bois, and Athol U. Wells: Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: A Simple Staging System; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1248-1254. First published online March 27 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200706-877OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

F. Pediatrics and Lung Development:

Jonathan D. Pendlebury, Richard J. A. Wilson, Shehr Bano, Kathleen J. Lumb, Jennifer M. Schneider, and Shabih U. Hasan: Respiratory Control in Neonatal Rats Exposed to Prenatal Cigarette Smoke; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1255-1261. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200711-1739OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Melissa J. Whitrow and Seeromanie Harding: Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Lung Function: Anthropometric, Socioeconomic, and Psychosocial Factors; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1262-1267. First published online March 6 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200706-867OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

G. Pulmonary Vascular Disease:

Nicolas Amabile, Christian Heiss, Wendy May Real, Petros Minasi, Dana McGlothlin, Eduardo J. Rame, William Grossman, Teresa De Marco, and Yerem Yeghiazarians: Circulating Endothelial Microparticle Levels Predict Hemodynamic Severity of Pulmonary Hypertension; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1268-1275. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200710-1458OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement]

Lunyin Yu, Deborah A. Quinn, Hari G. Garg, and Charles A. Hales: Deficiency of the NHE1 Gene Prevents Hypoxia-induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Vascular Remodeling; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1276-1284. First published online February 28 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200710-1522OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

H. Tuberculosis:

James D. Mancuso, Steven K. Tobler, and Lisa W. Keep: Pseudoepidemics of Tuberculin Skin Test Conversions in the U.S. Army after Recent Deployments; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1285-1289. First published online March 20 2008 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200802-223OC [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CORRESPONDENCE:

Kwok Chiu Chang, Chi Chiu Leung, and Cheuk Ming Tam: Inhaled Corticosteroids Might Not Protect against Lung Cancer; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1290 [Full Text] [PDF]

David H. Au, Jason W. Chien, and Chris L. Bryson: Inhaled Corticosteroids Might Not Protect against Lung Cancer; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1290-1291 [Full Text] [PDF]

Paul L. Enright: Are GOLDen Slumbers Drug Induced?; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1291 [Full Text] [PDF]

Leonardo M. Fabbri, Piera Boschetto, and Cristina Mapp: Time to Wake Up!; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1291-1292 [Full Text] [PDF]

Brent W. Kinder and Talmadge E. King, Jr.: Prognostic Significance of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cellular Analysis in Scleroderma Lung Disease; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1292-1293 [Full Text] [PDF]

Charlie Strange, Marcy Bolster, and Michael Roth: Prognostic Significance of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cellular Analysis in Scleroderma Lung Disease; Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008; 177: 1293 [Full Text] [PDF]