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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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Specific IgA against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in severe COPD

International Journal of COPD, 2017
Laura Millares,1–3 Sara Martí,2,4 Carmen Ardanuy,2,4 Josefina Liñares,2,4 Salud Santos,2,5 Jordi Dorca,5 Marian García-Nuñez,1–3,6 Sara Quero,3,6 Eduard Monsó2,7,8 1Department of Respiratory Medicine ...
Millares L, Martí S, Ardanuy C, Liñares J, Santos S, Dorca J, García-Nuñez M, Quero S, Monsó E   +8 more
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Black-pigmented sputum

Journal of Cytology, 2013
Black-pigmented sputum, also called "melanoptysis," is a symptom that may be observed in certain pathologies such us coal workers' pneumoconiosis (anthracosis). The cavitation and liquefaction of a fibrosed mass by an infectious process (tuberculosis, infections by anaerobes, etc.) or by ischemic necrosis may cause expectoration of a blackish secretion.
Rafael Martínez-Girón, Joaquín Mosquera-Martínez, Santiago Martínez-Torre   +2 more
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Flavonoids in Nasal Therapeutics: Biological Activities, Delivery Challenges, and Formulation Strategies–A Systematic Review

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
Overview of the therapeutic potential of flavonoids in nasal delivery systems, highlighting their benefits to the human nasal cavity, and applications in the treatment of respiratory and brain‐related diseases. ABSTRACT Flavonoids represent a significant group of secondary metabolites.
Jeniffer Viviana Ramirez Hernández, Sara Elis Bianchi, Flávia Nathiely Silveira Fachel, Elizandra Braganhol, Sheila Porto de Matos, Valquíria Linck Bassani   +5 more
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Increased sputum peripheral helper T cells are associated with the severity of rheumatoid arthritis but not with the severity of airway disease

Frontiers in Immunology
ObjectivePeripheral helper T (Tph) cells, together with plasma cells, are the major pathogenic lymphocytes in the synovium in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Eito Yokoi, Keiko Wakahara, Saya Nakamura, Eriko Fukutani, Shuji Asai, Nobunori Takahashi, Nobunori Takahashi, Toshihisa Kojima, Toshihisa Kojima, Shingo Iwano, Satoko Shimada, Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Naozumi Hashimoto, Makoto Ishii   +14 more
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Determining Factors Affecting Time to Sputum Smear Conversion in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Using Cox Semi-Parametric Method [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background & Aims: Tuberculosis is one of the most important diseases of century that involves all the human organs including lungs. Due to the yearly occurrence of 9 millions new cases and 1.5 millions deaths in the world, tuberculosis is in the center ...
Zahra Arab borzoi, Habibollah Esmaily, Monavar Afzal Aghaei, Amin Samiei, Abas Bahrampoor   +4 more
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Active Cycle of Breathing Technique Versus Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy Versus Exercise With Huffing During an Exacerbation of Bronchiectasis: A Randomised, Controlled Trial

Respirology, EarlyView.
Walking with huffing and the active cycle of breathing technique produced similar improvements in sputum expectoration and quality‐of‐life during hospitalisation for individuals experiencing a bronchiectasis exacerbation, while oscillating positive‐expiratory‐pressure therapy produced minimal changes.
Jennifer Phillips, Rodney Pope, Wayne Hing, Ashleigh Canov, Nicole Harley, Annemarie L. Lee   +5 more
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Decreased Sputum Type-2 Gene Expression in COPD Current Smokers

International Journal of COPD
Thomas Southworth,1,2 Andrew Higham,1 Augusta Beech,1,2 Jian Li,1 Sophie Wolosianka,2 Dave Singh1,2 1Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health ...
Southworth T, Higham A, Beech A, Li J, Wolosianka S, Singh D   +5 more
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PROTOZOA (TRICHOMONAS) IN SPUTUM [PDF]

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1896
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Baseline Neutrophil‐To‐Lymphocyte Ratio as a Risk Stratification Marker for Severe Checkpoint Inhibitor Pneumonitis in Patients With Non‐Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Two‐Cohort Study With Retrospective Discovery and Prospective Validation

Respirology, EarlyView.
The association between baseline neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and severe checkpoint inhibitor pneumonitis (CIP) was analyzed in discovery retrospective and validation prospective cohorts. Higher baseline NLR (≥ 4.75) was associated with increased severe CIP incidence in both cohorts.
Tetsu Hirakawa, Kakuhiro Yamaguchi, Shun Takao, Nobuhiro Kanaji, Naoko Matsumoto, Kozue Miyazaki, Tamio Okimoto, Chihiro Ando, Hisao Higo, Masaaki Yanai, Koji Kurose, Yasunari Nagasaki, Masako Watanabe, Kosuke Oyama, Yuko Toyoda, Yoshihiro Taguchi, Shimpei Tada, Kiyofumi Shimoji, Shinjiro Sakamoto, Yasushi Horimasu, Takeshi Masuda, Taku Nakashima, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Hironobu Hamada, Noboru Hattori   +24 more
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