Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous syndrome associated
with abnormal inflammatory immune responses of the lung to noxious particles and gases. …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by chronic inflammation of
the airways and progressive destruction of lung parenchyma, a process that in most cases is …

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are both highly prevalent,
chronic inflammatory lung diseases that lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Matrix …

Rationale: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by chronic airway
inflammation. It is unclear if dendritic cells (DC) participate in this inflammatory process. …

BETWEEN BEDSIDE AND BENCH differentiation of naive T lymphocytes toward TH2 cells,
which produce cytokines such as interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13 (ref. 2). Allergic TH2-…

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is mainly caused by cigarette smoking, and
is characterized by an increase in inflammatory cells in the airways and pulmonary tissue. …

… KR Bracke and T. Vanden Berghe are postdoctoral researchers funded by FWO
Vlaanderen, and GR Van Pottelberge is a doctoral researcher funded by FWO Vlaanderen. …

Rationale: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by progressive
inflammation in the airways and lungs combined with disturbed homeostatic functions of …

Existing compendia of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) are incomplete, in part because they are
derived almost exclusively from small and polyadenylated RNAs. Here we present a more …

Background Asthma is classified according to severity and inflammatory phenotype and is
likely to be distinguished by specific microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles. Objective We …