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Traditional Chinese Medicine for lung cancer: Mechanisms, clinical evidence, and future perspectives

Precision Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
Graphical abstract represents the risk factors for lung cancer, TCM efficacy and clinical outcomes to future challenges. Abstract Lung cancer remains a leading cause of global cancer mortality. Despite advances in conventional treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, challenges including drug resistance, toxicity ...
Zhangdeng Chen, Liujun Bao
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The clinical utility of induced sputum for the diagnosis of bacterial community-acquired pneumonia in HIV-infected patients: a prospective cross-sectional study

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: Bacterial pneumonias have been overcoming pneumocytosis in frequency. Controversy still remains about how to manage immunocompromised patients and those with lung diseases.
Rosemeri Maurici da Silva, Paulo José Zimermann Teixeira, José da Silva Moreira   +2 more
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Respiratory Bacterial Culture Sampling in Expectorating and Non-expectorating Patients With Cystic Fibrosis

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018
Purpose: Different respiratory sampling methods exist to identify lower airway pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), of which bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and expectorated sputum are considered the “gold standard.” Because BAL cannot be ...
Hanneke Eyns, Hanneke Eyns, Hanneke Eyns, Denis Piérard, Elke De Wachter, Leo Eeckhout, Peter Vaes, Peter Vaes, Anne Malfroot   +8 more
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Novel Therapeutics for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: From Empirical Bronchodilation to Precision Medicine

Respirology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains the third leading cause of death worldwide, and conventional bronchodilator‐based therapies have limited efficacy in preventing exacerbations and disease progression. The 2024–2026 period represents a historic inflection point: three mechanistically distinct agents received Food and Drug ...
Naoya Fujino, Hisatoshi Sugiura
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Bronchoscopic evaluation and final diagnosis in patients with chronic non productive cough with normal Chest X ray [PDF]

, 2010
When a proper detailed history, clinical examination, chest X ray and sputum analysis does not yield a definite diagnosis for the cause of chronic cough, bronchoscopy is indicated.
Anupama, N, Mithra, PP, Pradeep, NP, Vishnu, SM   +3 more
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Symptom screen: diagnostic usefulness in detecting pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected pregnant women in Kenya [PDF]

, 2011
OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic usefulness of tuberculosis (TB) symptom screening to detect active pulmonary TB among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected pregnant women in two PMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission) clinics in ...
Abuya, J M, Carter, E J, Edginton, M E, Fojo, T, Kosgei, R J, Mabeya, H, Mwangi, A, Ndavi, P M, Ong'ech, J O, Reid, T, Siika, A M, Wools-Kaloustian, K   +11 more
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Research Progress on Upper Airway Cough Syndrome

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Upper airway cough syndrome (UACS) has been identified as a significant contributor to chronic cough in various national guidelines. However, the complexity of its pathogenesis, the lack of clarity surrounding its diagnostic criteria, and its overlap with other etiologies of chronic cough present considerable challenges in both diagnosis and ...
Wan‐Ting Huang, Jia Chen
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Fractional Analysis of Th2-Type Cytokines in Sequential Samples of Induced Sputum

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2004
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of induced sputum in detecting the expression of Th2-type cytokines in asthmatics and have shown that the profile of inflammatory cells in induced sputum differs with time.
Rame Taha, Q Hamid, Ron Olivenstein
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Induced sputum in asthma.

Monaldi archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace, 2002
This is a short review of the use of induced sputum in bronchial asthma. The clinical applications, the procedure of this method as well as the safety validity and reproducibility of the results are discussed in detail. It is shown that sputum induction is a practical and safe procedure and an important research tool of local inflammation of bronchial ...
K, Zeibecoglou, N M, Siafakas
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Role for Complement C5 in Eosinophilic Inflammation of Severe Asthma

Allergy, EarlyView.
Complement activation module, particularly C5, is positively associated with eosinophilic inflammation in severe asthma cohorts. Elevated C5 expression correlates with poor lung function improvement and persistent eosinophilic inflammation. Mouse model studies confirm that C5 exacerbates eosinophilic inflammation, highlighting its potential as a ...
Cong Dong, Shaohua Lu, Zhenan Deng, Xuliang Cai, Huahao Shen, Guochao Shi, Changxing Ou, Zuofu Peng, Wei Jiang, Xiuhua Fu, Changzheng Wang, Meiling Jin, Zhongmin Qiu, Xiaoyang Wei, Wei Gu, Kewu Huang, Qiang Li, Xiangyan Zhang, Nanshan Zhong, Kian Fan Chung, Qingling Zhang, on behalf of C‐BIOPRED Consortium, Jiangtao Lin, Yongming Zhang, Nan Su, Xiaoyan Zhang, Qing Zhao, Ying Nong, Ping Chen, Tianyi Zhu, Binbin Ji, Yan Wang, Haitao Zhao, Jinbao Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiaona Yang, Chunhua Wei, Jing Han, Nong Yu, Qiang Li, Zhifu Yang, Yanhong Liu, Guohua Li, Huadong Guan, Shuping Zhang, Xiuhua Fu, Lihong Wang, Lingxin Meng, Zhenting Sun, Guangqin Cao, Lei Zhao, Kewu Huang, Hong Zhang, Wen Wang, Li An, Yangyu Chen, Yanli Gao, Xiaoxia Liu, Huifen Zhai, Fang Lin, Zhaohui Zhong, Zhongguang Wen, Yan Xiao, Jian Kang, Linfei Kong, Xinming Su, Xue Yan, Dijia Zhou, Huaping Tang, Wei Han, Yi Shu, Tintian Li, Lixin Xie, Hong Hu, Bo Liu, Yuzhu Li, Longmei Fan, Yue Zhang, Shifeng Zhao, Xiaofang Liu, Yuhong Wang, Xichun Zhang, Xinmao Wang, Pen Bai, Guangfa Wang, Yan Hu, Zhanwei Hu, Ju Cao, Bei He, Rui Wu, Xiaoyan Gai, Hong Zhu, Zhihai Han, Jiyi Meng, Wei Chen, Li Ma, Zhenqian Liu, Chunyang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Huahao Shen, Fugui Yan, Bin Shen, Xinghong Wang, Hao Zhang, Yinghua Yin, Jinkai Liu, Yanxiong Mao, Mao Huang, Xin Yao, Mao Huang, Ji Zhou, Zhenzhen Wu, Ping Yan, Yujie Zhang, Xinling Yang, Ningfei Ji, Fan Fei, Wanzhen Fu, Yi Yang, Yuting Shi, Wangjian Cha, Guochao Shi, Min Zhou, Wei Tang, Wei Chen, Jun Zhou, Wenjie Yang, Lei Zhu, Meiling Jin, Liping Xue, Li Li, Chun Li, Yin Gong, Qiang Li, Guogang Xie, Luhong Bao, Wuping Bao, Nianyun Li, Fengming Ding, Min Zhang, Zhongmin Qiu, Li Yu, Jungang Xie, Lingling Yi, Xianghuai Xu, Qiang Chen, Junjun Tang, Jinfu Xu, Xiaobing Ji, Jingyun Shi, Bo Su, Xiaojun Yang, Jiuwen Bai, Shuo Liang, Kebing Cheng, Wei Gu, Jiyong Ma, Yun Liu, Jun Ren, Shan Mao, Qingling Zhang, Baoqing Sun, Jiaxing Xie, Rihuang Qiu, Zhiqiang Wang, Peiyan Zhen, Wenting Luo, Changgao Zhong, Wei Luo, Yanqing Xie, Xinxin Yu, Wenting Yu, Wei He, Changzheng Wang, Qianli Ma, Min Wan, Mingzhou Zhang, Haining Li, Shaoxi Cai, Haijin Zhao, Yanmei Ye, Fang Zhou, Laiyu Liu, Guohua Huang, Jianpeng Liang, Jianping Zhao, Jungang Xie, Qiongjie Hu, Kaiyan Li, Wang Ni, Guohua Zheng, Weining Xiong, Lingling Yi, Xihu Du, Yunhui Zhang, Zhi Li, Xiaoqiong Tan, Feng Liao, Shenglan Wang, Yijiang Huang, Xinjun Cai, Kai Liu, Shaojing Sheng, Yihui Fu, Shenghua Sun, Qiang Zhang, Jinweng Cai, Ye Ling, Pin Chen, Hong Luo, Lv Liu, Zhijun Liu, Yuling Tang, Yusheng Yan, Guiyan Mo, Long Wen, Yinqun Zhu, Du Fan   +217 more
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