Review
In the last decade, important advances have been made in understanding of cancer biology, particularly non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with the discovery of oncogenic drivers of the disease. The epidermal g...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2015 3:1
Published on: 24 February 2015
Research
SALL4 and OCT4 are transcription factors and play essential roles in stem cell development and oncogenesis. However, the expression of these transcription factors has not been well studied in lung cancers. In ...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:10
Published on: 2 October 2014
Research
It is unknown whether serial pulmonary function tests are necessary for the correct diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in patients with stable non-congested chronic heart failure (CHF). ...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:12
Published on: 25 September 2014
Research
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been suggested to regulate proximal-distal determination of embryonic lung epithelium based upon genetically modified mouse models. The previously identified and characterized small...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:8
Published on: 11 September 2014
Research
Respiratory viral infections are the most common trigger of acute exacerbations in patients with allergic asthma. The anti-viral response of airway epithelial cells (AEC) may be impaired in asthmatics, while c...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:11
Published on: 11 September 2014
Research
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:9
Published on: 11 September 2014
Perspective
This discourse contains three perspectives on various aspects of Stem Cell Biology and tools available to study and translate into Regenerative Medicine. The lung incessantly faces onslaught of the environment...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:7
Published on: 3 April 2014
Review
Chronic airway diseases like cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis, asthma, diffuse panbronchiolitis, and bronchiectasis are all associated with chronic inflammation. The airway mucosa responds to infection and ...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:6
Published on: 10 March 2014
Research
Prevalence of bronchial asthma, asthma treatment assessment, and estimation of the control level among asthma patients in Henan Province, China are reported in this paper.
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:5
Published on: 5 March 2014
Review
The complex tasks of making a confident diagnosis of a specific form of interstitial lung disease (ILD) and formulating a patient-centered, personalized management plan in an attempt to achieve remission or st...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:4
Published on: 13 February 2014
Review
Until the late 1990s, aerosol therapy consisted of beta2-adrenergic agonists, anti-cholinergics, steroidal and non-steroidal agents, mucolytics and antibiotics that were used to treat patients with asthma, COPD a...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:3
Published on: 13 January 2014
Short report
Since their first description, activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations identify a distinct clinical entity of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:2
Published on: 6 January 2014
Review
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in humans involves ≥ 200,000 individuals in the United States, and has a mortality rate (40%) for which no specific drug has been approved for use in humans. We have ...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2014 2:1
Published on: 3 January 2014
Review
Whereas the insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and associated right heart failure have increased in recent years, there is a lack of clinical tools to ...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:16
Published on: 11 December 2013
Review
It is generally agreed that the pro-inflammatory, pro-survival transcription factor NF-κB is a tumor promoter. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α or TNF) mediates NF-κB activation. Tumor suppressor WWOX (FOR o...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:15
Published on: 14 November 2013
Review
The role of bacterial infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and how it should be treated has been an ongoing source of controversy. For many years bacterial infection has not been thought t...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:13
Published on: 30 August 2013
Research
Biobank samples stored in biobanks give researchers and respiratory healthcare institutions access to datasets of analytes valuable for both diagnostic and research practices. The usefulness of these samples i...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:14
Published on: 30 August 2013
Research
Lung transplantation remains the only viable treatment option for the majority of patients with advanced lung diseases. However, 5-year post-transplant survival rates remain low primarily secondary to chronic ...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:12
Published on: 8 August 2013
Short report
Matrix-metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 has been implicated in the pathogenesis of COPD, although its link to disease severity is unclear. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between disease seve...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:11
Published on: 6 June 2013
Review
Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome are major causes of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. This review focuses on new developments in definitions, epidemiology, clini...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:10
Published on: 17 May 2013
Editorial
Medical advances have failed to arrest the growing morbidity and mortality from lung diseases. COPD, lung cancer and pulmonary infections remain leading causes of death. More than any other time in human histo...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:9
Published on: 19 April 2013
Editorial
There is evidence that the potential for high concentration oxygen therapy to increase PaCO2 is not limited to stable and acute exacerbations of COPD, but also to other acute respiratory disorders with abnormal g...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:8
Published on: 4 April 2013
Research
The link between long-term ICS therapy and respiratory infection in COPD patients is controversial. We investigated the effect of long-term use of inhaled corticosteroid on Toll like receptor 2 (TLR2) expressi...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:7
Published on: 19 March 2013
Review
Lung cancer is a heterogeneous and complex disease. Genomic and transcriptomic profiling of lung cancer not only further our knowledge about cancer initiation and progression, but could also provide guidance o...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:6
Published on: 8 March 2013
Perspective
Recent studies have demonstrated that transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β1)-induced antiapoptotic factor (TIAF1) is able to form aggregates in the hippocampi of middle-aged normal individuals. The aggregati...
Translational Respiratory Medicine 2013 1:5
Published on: 28 February 2013
