Physical activity and its clinical correlates in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Limited data are available on physical activity (PhA) levels in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) patients, as well as on the clinical utility of PhA measurements using questionnaires and accelerometers.
Cristine Schmidt +6 more
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Patient-Reported Symptom and Health-Related Quality-of-Life Validation and Responsiveness During the First 6 Months of Treatment for Mycobacterium avium Complex Pulmonary Disease [PDF]
Emily Henkle +60 more
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Reactive Oxygen Species in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Environmental exposure, primarily cigarette smoking, can cause high oxidative stress and is the main factor of COPD development.
Samia Boukhenouna +3 more
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KHS‐Cnd peptide is able to impair biofilm formation and disaggregate mature biofilms in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates. Differences in extracellular metabolites reflect changes in biofilm metabolism due to KHS‐Cnd treatment. Among the differentially represented extracellular metabolites upon KHS‐Cnd treatment, the significantly altered ...
Fernando Porcelli +9 more
wiley +1 more source
Automated Segmentation of Pulmonary Lobes using Coordination-Guided Deep Neural Networks
The identification of pulmonary lobes is of great importance in disease diagnosis and treatment. A few lung diseases have regional disorders at lobar level. Thus, an accurate segmentation of pulmonary lobes is necessary.
Chen, Junxuan +6 more
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The role of endothelin-1 in pulmonary arterial hypertension. [PDF]
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but debilitating disease, which if left untreated rapidly progresses to right ventricular failure and eventually death. In the quest to understand the pathogenesis of this disease differences in the profile,
Chester, AH, Yacoub, MH
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CRISPRI‐mediated gene silencing and phenotypic exploration in nontuberculous mycobacteria. In this Research Protocol, we describe approaches to control, monitor, and quantitatively assess CRISPRI‐mediated gene silencing in M. smegmatis and M. abscessus model organisms.
Vanessa Point +7 more
wiley +1 more source
A Trial of Home Oxygen for Acute Asthma Attacks for the Prevention of Asthmatic Death
Physicians are very much concerned that death from asthma has not significantly declined despite modern treatment. Since most asthma deaths take place at home it is mandatory to keep in mind that adequate management should be commenced as early as ...
Seishiro Miyagi +3 more
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The efficacy of psychologically based interventions to improve anxiety, depression and quality of life in COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
This article comprises a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at the efficacy of psychological intervention in improving anxiety, depression and quality of life in respiratory disease.Objective: To systematically evaluate the efficacy of ...
Adams +47 more
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Autophagy and pulmonary disease
Autophagy is a process of cell self-renewal that is dependent on the degradation of the cytoplasmic proteins or organelles of lysosomes. Many diseases, such as metabolic diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and lung diseases, have been confirmed
Shi-xia Liao +5 more
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