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SRPK1 maintains acute myeloid leukemia through effects on isoform usage of epigenetic regulators including BRD4 (2018)
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We recently identified the splicing kinase gene SRPK1 as a genetic vulnerability of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here, we show that genetic or pharmacological inhibition of SRPK1 leads to cell cycle arrest, leukemic cell differentiation and prolonge... Read More about SRPK1 maintains acute myeloid leukemia through effects on isoform usage of epigenetic regulators including BRD4.

Temporarily quadrupling the dose of inhaled steroid to prevent asthma exacerbations: FAST (2018)
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Genetic risk factors for the development of pulmonary disease identified by genome-wide association (2018)
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Chronic respiratory diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) combined affect over 500 million people worldwide. While environmental factors are important in disease progression, as... Read More about Genetic risk factors for the development of pulmonary disease identified by genome-wide association.

Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD (2018)
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Hip fractures are common in patients with COPD and contemporary outcome data is needed. Patients admitted with a hip fracture to one acute trust (2010-2015) were assessed prospectively (UK National Hip Fracture Database audit) and mortality data col... Read More about Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD.

TAILS proteomics reveals dynamic changes in airway proteolysis controlling protease activity and innate immunity during COPD exacerbations (2018)
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© 2018 the American Physiological Society. Dys-regulated protease activity is thought to cause parenchymal and airway damage in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Multiple proteases have been implicated in COPD, and identifying their subst... Read More about TAILS proteomics reveals dynamic changes in airway proteolysis controlling protease activity and innate immunity during COPD exacerbations.

Enhanced oxidative stress in smoking and ex-smoking severe asthma in the U-BIOPRED cohort (2018)
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Oxidative stress is believed to be a major driver of inflammation in smoking asthmatics. The U-BIOPRED project recruited a cohort of Severe Asthma smokers/ex-smokers (SAs/ex) and non-smokers (SAn) with extensive clinical and biomarker information ena... Read More about Enhanced oxidative stress in smoking and ex-smoking severe asthma in the U-BIOPRED cohort.

Impact of hydration status on haemodynamics, effects of acute blood pressure lowering treatment, and prognosis after stroke (2018)
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Background High blood pressure (BP) is common in acute stroke and associated with poor outcome, but the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke (ENOS) trial showed no beneficial effect of antihypertensive treatment in this situation. Antihypertensive a... Read More about Impact of hydration status on haemodynamics, effects of acute blood pressure lowering treatment, and prognosis after stroke.

The vitamin D binding protein axis modifies disease severity in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (2018)
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Background: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease of women. Decline in lung function is variable making appropriate targeting of therapy difficult. We used unbiased serum proteomics to identify markers associated with outcome in LAM. Meth... Read More about The vitamin D binding protein axis modifies disease severity in lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

Magnetic resonance imaging on sodium nuclei: potential medical applications of 23Na MRI (2018)
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Sodium is a key element in a living organism. The increase of its concentration is an indicator of many pathological conditions. 23Na magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a quantitative method that allows to determine the sodium content in tissues and... Read More about Magnetic resonance imaging on sodium nuclei: potential medical applications of 23Na MRI.

Impact of straight to test pathways on time to diagnosis in oesophageal and gastric cancer (2018)
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Background: Cancer survival in the UK has doubled in the last 40 years; however, 1-year and 5-year survival rates are still lower than other countries. One cause may be a delay between referral into secondary care and subsequent investigation. We set... Read More about Impact of straight to test pathways on time to diagnosis in oesophageal and gastric cancer.

PEGylated enhanced cell penetrating peptide nanoparticles for lung gene therapy (2018)
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The lung remains an attractive target for the gene therapy of monogenetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). Despite over 27 clinical trials, there are still very few gene therapy vectors that have shown any improvement in lung function; highligh... Read More about PEGylated enhanced cell penetrating peptide nanoparticles for lung gene therapy.

A theoretical model of inflammation- and mechanotransduction-driven asthmatic airway remodelling (2018)
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© 2018, The Author(s). Inflammation, airway hyper-responsiveness and airway remodelling are well-established hallmarks of asthma, but their inter-relationships remain elusive. In order to obtain a better understanding of their inter-dependence, we de... Read More about A theoretical model of inflammation- and mechanotransduction-driven asthmatic airway remodelling.

Electrospun gelatin-based scaffolds as a novel 3D platform to study the function of contractile smooth muscle cells in vitro (2018)
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Contractile dysfunction of smooth muscle (SM) is a feature of chronic cardiovascular, respiratory and gastro-intestinal diseases. Owing to the low availability of human ex vivo tissue for the assessment of SM contractile function, the aim of this stu... Read More about Electrospun gelatin-based scaffolds as a novel 3D platform to study the function of contractile smooth muscle cells in vitro.

Epithelial IL-6 trans-signaling defines a new asthma phenotype with increased airway inflammation (2018)
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Background: Although several studies link high levels of IL-6 and soluble IL-6 receptor (sIL-6R) to asthma severity and decreased lung function, the role of IL-6 trans-signaling (IL-6TS) in asthmatic patients is unclear. Objective: We sought to explo... Read More about Epithelial IL-6 trans-signaling defines a new asthma phenotype with increased airway inflammation.

Fluid flow in a porous medium with transverse permeability discontinuity (2018)
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) velocimetry methods were used to study fully developed axially symmetric fluid flow in a model porous medium of cylindrical symmetry with a transverse permeability discontinuity. Spatial mapping of fluid ow resulted i... Read More about Fluid flow in a porous medium with transverse permeability discontinuity.

Sputum proteomics and airway cell transcripts of current and ex-smokers with severe asthma in U-BIOPRED: an exploratory analysis (2018)
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Background: Severe asthma patients with a significant smoking history have airflow obstruction with reported neutrophilia. We hypothesise that multi-omic analysis will enable the definition of smoking and ex-smoking severe asthma molecular phenotypes... Read More about Sputum proteomics and airway cell transcripts of current and ex-smokers with severe asthma in U-BIOPRED: an exploratory analysis.

Clinical and molecular features of thiazide-induced hyponatremia (2018)
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Hypertension affects more than 30% of the world’s adult population and thiazide (and thiazide-like) diuretics are amongst the most widely used, effective and least costly treatments available, with all-cause mortality benefits equivalent to ACE inhib... Read More about Clinical and molecular features of thiazide-induced hyponatremia.

Fibrinogen does not relate to cardiovascular or muscle manifestations in COPD: cross-sectional data from the ERICA study (2018)
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Cardiovascular and skeletal muscle manifestations constitute important comorbidities in COPD, with systemic inflammation proposed as a common mechanistic link. Fibrinogen has prognostic role in COPD. We aimed to determine whether aortic stiffness and... Read More about Fibrinogen does not relate to cardiovascular or muscle manifestations in COPD: cross-sectional data from the ERICA study.

Risk of fall in patients with COPD (2018)
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A matched cohort study was conducted to determine the incidence of falls in patients following a diagnosis of COPD using a UK primary care database. 44 400 patients with COPD and 175?545 non-COPD subjects were identified. The incidence rate of fall p... Read More about Risk of fall in patients with COPD.

Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy (2018)
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Background Reduced lung function is common and associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, even in asymptomatic individuals without diagnosed respiratory disease. Previous studies have identified relationships between lung fu... Read More about Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy.