Current theories of CF pathogenesis predict different predisposing “local environmental”
conditions and sites of bacterial infection within CF airways. Here we show that, in CF patients …

Background: The clinical utility of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) cell analysis for the
diagnosis and management of patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been a subject of …

Alopecia areata (AA) is among the most highly prevalent human autoimmune diseases,
leading to disfiguring hair loss due to the collapse of immune privilege of the hair follicle and …

Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a major complication of lung transplantation that
is associated with poor survival. The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation…

Although survival after lung transplantation has improved significantly during the last decade,
chronic rejection is thought to be the major cause of late mortality. The physiologic …

Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), a process of fibro-obliterative occlusion of the small
airways in the transplanted lung, is the most common cause of lung transplant failure. We …

We conducted a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized study to evaluate the
microbiological efficacy and safety of inhaled tobramycin for treatment of patients with …

Growing evidence suggests that environmentally relevant elevations in CO 2 (<5,000 ppm)
may pose direct risks for human health. Increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations could …

Background Recent gene profiling data suggest that, besides the anagen hair bulb, the
epithelial stem cell region in the outer root sheath of hair follicles (HFs), termed the bulge, may …

… KC. Meyer has a partial sponsorship by a private entity (The George and Julie Mosher
Pulmonary Research Fund. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement …