RESPIRATORY RESEARCH

Electronic cigarettes: Investigating the harms and benefits

Guest edited by Associate Editor, Professor Robert Bals (Saarland University, Germany), this series of articles provides newest research and comprehensive background information on e-cigarettes. The articles aim to address the needs of basic researchers, clinicians and other individuals that need up-to-data information on this topic.

Respiratory Research is pleased to still be accepting submissions for this thematic series.

Featured article:From blood to lung tissue: effect of cigarette smoke on DNA methylation and lung function

© iStock Genetic and environmental factors play a role in the development of COPD. The epigenome, and more specifically DNA methylation, is recognized as important link between these factors. The authors postulate that DNA methylation is one of the routes by which cigarette smoke influences the development of COPD. In this study, the authors aim aim to identify CpG-sites that are associated with cigarette smoke exposure and lung function levels in whole blood and validate these CpG-sites in lung tissue.

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Content type: Letter to the Editor
| 17 December 2018

Pulmonary aspiration in preschool children with cystic fibrosis

Authors: D. Clarke, I. Gorman, F. Ringholz, M. McDermott, DW. Cox, P. Greally, B. Linnane and P. Mc Nally
Content type: Research
| 14 December 2018

Effects of smoking on the lower respiratory tract microbiome in mice

Authors: Rui Zhang, Ling Chen, Lei Cao, Kang-jie Li, Yao Huang, Xiao-qian Luan and Ge Li
Content type: Research
| 14 December 2018

LncRNA H19 promotes the proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells through AT₁R via sponging let-7b in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension

Authors: Hua Su, Xiaoling Xu, Chao Yan, Yangfeng Shi, Yanjie Hu, Liangliang Dong, Songmin Ying, Kejing Ying and Ruifeng Zhang
Content type: Research
| 13 December 2018

GLI 2012 equations define few spirometric anomalies in the general population: the PneumoLaus study

Authors: Alexandra Lenoir, Jean-William Fitting, Pedro-Manuel Marques-Vidal, Peter Vollenweider and Laurent P. Nicod
Content type: Research
| 13 December 2018

Spirometric changes during exacerbations of COPD: a post hoc analysis of the WISDOM trial

Authors: Henrik Watz, Kay Tetzlaff, Helgo Magnussen, Achim Mueller, Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin, Emiel F. M. Wouters, Claus Vogelmeier and Peter M. A. Calverley

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Content type: Research
| 15 February 2006

Inefficient cationic lipid-mediated siRNA and antisense oligonucleotide transfer to airway epithelial cells in vivo

Authors: Uta Griesenbach, Chris Kitson, Escudero Sara Garcia, Raymond Farley, Charanjit Singh, Luci Somerton, Hazel Painter, Rbecca L Smith, Deborah R Gill, Stephen C Hyde, Yu-Hua Chow, Jim Hu, Mike Gray, Mark Edbrooke, Varrie Ogilvie, Gordon MacGregor…
Content type: Review
| 16 April 2013

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2011: key updates on guidelines and therapeutics Concluding remarks

Authors: Ulrich Costabel
Content type: Review
| 24 November 2012

Statins as potential therapeutic drug for asthma?

Authors: Cheng Yuan, Lin Zhou, Jiyun Cheng, Jingying Zhang, Yue Teng, Mao Huang, Ian M Adcock, Peter J Barnes and Xin Yao
Content type: Review
| 8 May 2013

Combination bronchodilator therapy in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Authors: Donald P Tashkin and Gary T Ferguson
Content type: Research
| 7 February 2015

Chronic exposure of diesel exhaust particles induces alveolar enlargement in mice

Authors: Kelly Yoshizaki, Jôse Mára Brito, Henrique T Moriya, Alessandra C Toledo, Sandra Ferzilan, Ana Paula Ligeiro de Oliveira, Isabel D Machado, Sandra HP Farsky, Luiz FF Silva, Milton A Martins, Paulo HN Saldiva, Thais Mauad and Mariangela Macchione

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Aims and scope

Respiratory Research publishes high-quality clinical and basic research, review and commentary articles on all aspects of respiratory medicine and related diseases.

As the leading fully open access journal in the field, Respiratory Research provides an essential resource for pulmonologists, allergists, immunologists and other physicians, researchers, healthcare workers and medical students with worldwide dissemination of articles resulting in high visibility and generating international discussion.

Editorial board

Editors-in-Chief
Oliver Schildgen, Kliniken der Stadt Koln gGmbH, Klinikum der Privaten Universitat Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Kelan Tantisira, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA

Associate Editors
Robert Bals, Saarland University, Germany
Francesco Blasi, University of Milan, Italy
Arnaud Bourdin, University of Montpellier, France
Mario Cazzola, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Suzanne Cloonan, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Taylor Cohen, MedImmune, USA
Bruno Crestani, Bichat Hospital, France
Jeanine D'Armiento, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Olivier Danhaive, University of California San Francisco, USA
Massimo Di Maio, University of Turin, Italy
Louise Donnelly, Imperial College London, UK
Michael Kreuter, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany
Guha Krishnaswamy, Wake Baptist Hospital, USA
Victor Laubach, University of Virginia, USA
Yasuhiko Nishioka, Tokushima University, Japan
Stylianos Orfanos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Reynold A. Panettieri Jr, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Stephen Peters, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, USA
YS Prakash, Mayo Clinic, USA
Giovanni Sotgiu, University of Sassari, Italy
Dale D Tang, Albany Medical College, USA
Johan Verbraecken, Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium
Marlies Wijsenbeek, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands