Asthma Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Asthma, including details on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, causes, medications.

Volume 5 (2008), Issue 8 (August)

1. Morbidity of overweight (>or=85th percentile) in the first 2 years of life.
   Pediatrics, 122(2): 267-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Airway responsiveness in mild to moderate childhood asthma: sex influences on the natural history.
   Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(4): 325-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Asthma and the elite athlete: summary of the International Olympic Committee's consensus conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 22-24, 2008.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 254-60, 260.e1-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Exercise and other indirect challenges to demonstrate asthma or exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in athletes.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 238-46; quiz 247-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Advances in asthma and allergy genetics in 2007.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 267-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Animal shed Bacillus licheniformis spores possess allergy-protective as well as inflammatory properties.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 307-12, 312.e1-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. An exploration of factors underlying asthma care and morbidity: a factor analysis of clinical variables.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 328-34, 334.e1-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Childhood eczema and asthma incidence and persistence: a cohort study from childhood to middle age.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 280-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Airway hyperresponsiveness is dissociated from airway wall structural remodeling.
   J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 335-41, 341.e1-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Birth by cesarean section, allergic rhinitis, and allergic sensitization among children with a parental history of atopy.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 274-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Airway injury as a mechanism for exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in elite athletes.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 225-35; quiz 236-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Airway responsiveness and inflammation in adolescent elite swimmers.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 322-7, 327.e1. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Improved overall trends but persistent racial disparities in emergency department visits for acute asthma, 1993-2005.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 122(2): 313-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Lycopene suppresses ovalbumin-induced airway inflammation in a murine model of asthma.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 374(2): 248-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. An african-specific functional polymorphism in KCNMB1 shows sex-specific association with asthma severity.
    Hum Mol Genet, 17(17): 2681-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Wheeze and asthma in children: associations with body mass index, sports, television viewing, and diet.
    Epidemiology, 19(5): 747-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. GS143, an IkappaB ubiquitination inhibitor, inhibits allergic airway inflammation in mice.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 374(3): 507-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Ambient ozone concentrations cause increased hospitalizations for asthma in children: an 18-year study in Southern California.
    Environ Health Perspect, 116(8): 1063-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Systemic administration of an Fcgamma-Fc(epsilon)-fusion protein in house dust mite sensitive nonhuman primates.
    Clin Immunol, 128(3): 340-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. The association between obesity and asthma: interactions between systemic and airway inflammation.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(5): 469-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Induction of angiogenesis by airway smooth muscle from patients with asthma.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(5): 460-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Violence, abuse, and asthma in Puerto Rican children.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(5): 453-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Nonatopic children with multitrigger wheezing have airway pathology comparable to atopic asthma.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(5): 476-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Longitudinal follow-up of bronchial inflammation, respiratory symptoms, and pulmonary function in adolescents after repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula.
    J Pediatr, 153(3): 396-401. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. A follow-up study of children hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia.
    Arch Dis Child, 93(9): 755-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Allergy and the lung.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 153: 12-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Relative corticosteroid insensitivity of alveolar macrophages in severe asthma compared with non-severe asthma.
    Thorax, 63(9): 784-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Can lay people deliver asthma self-management education as effectively as primary care based practice nurses?
    Thorax, 63(9): 778-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Effect of allergic rhinitis on the use and cost of health services by children with asthma.
    Yonsei Med J, 49(4): 521-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Airway lipoxin A4 generation and lipoxin A4 receptor expression are decreased in severe asthma.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(6): 574-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Increased circulating fibrocytes in asthma with chronic airflow obstruction.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(6): 583-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Arginase inhibition protects against allergen-induced airway obstruction, hyperresponsiveness, and inflammation.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 178(6): 565-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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