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A national program for detection of alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency in Italy. Gruppo I.D.A.

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

A new Editorial Board of Monaldi archives for chest disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

A pilot study of nurse-led, home monitoring for patients with chronic respiratory failure and with mechanical ventilation assistance

scientific article published in October 2006

Aging and Induced-Sputum Cells

scientific article published in December 2005

Airway inflammation in healthy smokers

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: from Italy to the world

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Alveolar macrophage stimulation of T-cell proliferation in autologous mixed lymphocyte reactions. Role of HLA-DR antigens

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Bacterial-viral load and the immune response in stable and exacerbated COPD: significance and therapeutic prospects

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Bronchial inflammation and bacterial load in stable COPD is associated with TLR4 overexpression.

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Bronchoalveolar lavage, sputum and exhaled clinically relevant inflammatory markers: values in healthy adults.

scientific article published on October 2007

COPD: is chemotaxis the key?

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Changes in pulmonary surfactant composition following MACC chemotherapy for lung carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 November 1987

Comparing airways clearance techniques in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis: positive expiratory pressure or temporary positive expiratory pressure? A retrospective study

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Comparison between exhaled and bronchoalveolar lavage levels of hydrogen peroxide in patients with diffuse interstitial lung diseases

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Convergent sets of data from in vivo and in vitro methods point to an active role of Hsp60 in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease pathogenesis

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Development of a Barthel Index based on dyspnea for patients with respiratory diseases.

scientific article published on 07 June 2016

Different expansions of T lymphocyte subpopulations in the lung and corticosteroid-induced changes in patients with active pulmonary sarcoidosis

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Does activity of pulmonary sarcoidosis depend on disease duration? A correlation between bronchoalveolar lavage, scintigraphic, radiologic, and physiologic parameters and time of onset of the disease

scientific article published on 01 March 1987

Downmodulation of CXCL8/IL-8 receptors on neutrophils after recruitment in the airways

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Efficacy of augmentation therapy for emphysema associated with α1-antitrypsin deficiency: enough is enough.

scientific article published in January 2016

Efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic respiratory failure (CRF) due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): The Maugeri Study.

scientific article published on 28 August 2007

Efficacy of temporary positive expiratory pressure (TPEP) in patients with lung diseases and chronic mucus hypersecretion. The UNIKO® project: a multicentre randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 11 September 2012

Evaluation of Innate Immune Mediators Related to Respiratory Viruses in the Lung of Stable COPD Patients

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Exhaled volatile organic compounds in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: cross sectional and nested short-term follow-up study

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Expression of vascular remodelling markers in relation to bradykinin receptors in asthma and COPD.

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Gait abnormalities of COPD are not directly related to respiratory function.

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General characteristics and risk factors of cardiovascular disease among interstate bus drivers

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General practitioners and rare lung diseases: a task force for the development of rare lung diseases educational material

scientific article published on December 2016

HSP60 activity on human bronchial epithelial cells.

scientific article published in October 2017

Health and social impacts of COPD and the problem of under-diagnosis

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Helper T-lymphocytes in pulmonary sarcoidosis. Functional analysis of a lung T-cell subpopulation in patients with active disease

scientific article published on 01 June 1986

High-resolution computed tomography quantitation of emphysema is correlated with selected lung function values in stable COPD.

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

Home mechanical ventilation patients: a retrospective survey to identify level of burden in real life

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Hsp10 nuclear localization and changes in lung cells response to cigarette smoke suggest novel roles for this chaperonin.

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Hsp60 and Hsp10 down-regulation predicts bronchial epithelial carcinogenesis in smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Human ciliated bronchial epithelial cells: expression of the HLA-DR antigens and of the HLA-DR alpha gene, modulation of the HLA-DR antigens by gamma-interferon and antigen-presenting function in the mixed leukocyte reaction

scientific article published on 01 November 1990

In pulmonary sarcoidosis ciliated bronchial epithelial cells show increased HLA-DR antigens expression which is not associated with antigen presenting ability in the mixed leukocyte reaction

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Increased MCP-1 and MIP-1beta in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of chronic bronchitics

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Increased bronchoalveolar granulocytes and granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor during exacerbations of chronic bronchitis

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Inflammatory cells and mediators in bronchial lavage of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Innate immunity but not NLRP3 inflammasome activation correlates with severity of stable COPD.

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Integrated care of chronic degenerative non-communicable diseases and rehabilitation: the odd couple?

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Italian registry of patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: general data and quality of life evaluation.

scientific article published on May 2015

Lower respiratory tract inflammation in chronic bronchitis. Evaluation by bronchoalveolar lavage and changes associated with treatment with Immucytal, a biological response modifier

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

MEKC of desmosine and isodesmosine in urine of chronic destructive lung disease patients

scientific article published in June 2000

MVarallo: a new M(Like) alpha 1-antitrypsin-deficient allele

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Oxidant-antioxidant balance in asthma and the potential of antioxidant therapies

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Patients' characterization, hospital course and clinical outcomes in five Italian respiratory intensive care units.

scientific article published on 26 September 2009

Phospho-p38 MAPK expression in COPD patients and asthmatics and in challenged bronchial epithelium

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Physiological responses to arm exercise in difficult to wean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

scientific article published on 13 June 2006

Preferential Usage of the T-Cell Antigen Receptor β-Chain Constant Region Cβ1 Element by Lung T-Lymphocytes of Patients with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

scientific article published on March 1, 1991

Primary human mesothelioma cells express class II MHC, ICAM-1 and B7-2 and can present recall antigens to autologous blood lymphocytes.

scientific article published in December 1998

Pulmonary rehabilitation in Italy: professional barriers to overcome

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Requirement for different presenting cells and for different processing mechanisms by human CD4 T helper clones specific for M. tuberculosis antigens.

scientific article published on May 1998

Response to treatment with an analog of the luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone in a patient with pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

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Role of the chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CCR4 in human pulmonary fibrosis.

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Seven-year time course of lung function, symptoms, health-related quality of life, and exercise tolerance in COPD patients undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation programs.

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Sleep apnea, CPAP therapy and work activity

scientific article published in January 2014

Smoking-related lung diseases: a clinical perspective

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Suppression of the alveolitis in pulmonary sarcoidosis by oral corticosteroids

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Symptomatic treatment of recurrent malignant pleural effusions with intrapleurally administered Corynebacterium parvum. Clinical response is not associated with evidence of enhancement of local cellular-mediated immunity.

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T helper type 17-related cytokine expression is increased in the bronchial mucosa of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

scientific article published in August 2009

T-lymphocytes that accumulate in the lung in sarcoidosis have evidence of recent stimulation of the T-cell antigen receptor

scientific article published on 01 May 1992

T-lymphocytes with gamma delta+ V delta 2+ antigen receptors are present in increased proportions in a fraction of patients with tuberculosis or with sarcoidosis

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

TGF-β Signaling Pathways in Different Compartments of the Lower Airways of Patients With Stable COPD.

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Tele-assistance in chronic respiratory failure patients: a randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 17 September 2008

Telemedicine: a new frontier for effective healthcare services.

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The T-cell antigen receptor repertoire of alpha beta+ T-lymphocytes in patients with tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 September 1993

The T-cell antigen receptor: methods of study and relevance in the pathogenesis of pulmonary disorders.

scientific article published on February 1994

The importance of the proceedings in thoracic endoscopy of the AIPO Study Group of Interventional Pulmonology

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

The interstitial lung disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis: evidence for imbalance of helper T-lymphocyte subpopulations at sites of disease activity.

scientific article published on May 1987

Thymomodulin increases HLA-DR expression by macrophages but not T-lymphocyte proliferation in autologous mixed leucocyte reaction

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Thymomodulin increases release of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor and of tumour necrosis factor in vitro

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

Tracheostomy and related host-pathogen interaction are associated with airway inflammation as characterized by tracheal aspirate analysis

scientific article published on 05 November 2008

Tuberculous pleural effusions. Evidence for selective presence of PPD-specific T-lymphocytes at site of inflammation in the early phase of the infection

scientific article published on 01 September 1987

Weaning from mechanical ventilation followed at home with the aid of a telemedicine program

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

[Evaluation of the effects on the composition of alveolar surfactant of 2 chemotherapeutic protocols for carcinoma of the lung: peptichemio and MACC]

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

[Evaluation of the patient with respiratory failure]

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

[Questionnaires for occupational disability evaluation in patients with chronic respiratory diseases]

scientific article published on 01 January 2010