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Accurate identification of hospital admissions from care homes: development and validation of an automated algorithm (2017)
Journal Article

Background: measuring the complex needs of care home residents is crucial for resource allocation. Hospital patient administration systems (PAS) may not accurately identify admissions from care homes. Objective: to develop and validate an accurate,... Read More about Accurate identification of hospital admissions from care homes: development and validation of an automated algorithm.

An epithelial biomarker signature for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an analysis from the multicentre PROFILE cohort study (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive, fatal condition with a variable disease trajectory. The aim of this study was to evaluate potential biomarkers that predict outcome for people with IPF. Method: The PROFILE study is a... Read More about An epithelial biomarker signature for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an analysis from the multicentre PROFILE cohort study.

Interplay between EZH2 and G9a regulates CXCL10 gene repression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (2017)
Journal Article

Selective repression of the antifibrotic gene CXCL10 contributes to tissue remodelling in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We have previously reported that histone deacetylation and histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation are involved in CXCL10 re... Read More about Interplay between EZH2 and G9a regulates CXCL10 gene repression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

ECM crosslinking enhances fibroblast growth and protects against matrix proteolysis in lung fibrosis (2017)
Journal Article

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterised by accumulation of extra cellular matrix (ECM) proteins and fibroblast proliferation. ECM cross-linking enzymes have been implicated in fibrotic diseases and we hypothesised that the ECM in IPF is... Read More about ECM crosslinking enhances fibroblast growth and protects against matrix proteolysis in lung fibrosis.

Genetic variants associated with susceptibility to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in people of European ancestry: a genome-wide association study (2017)
Journal Article

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive lung disease with high mortality, uncertain cause, and few treatment options. Studies have identified a significant genetic risk associated with the development of IPF; however,... Read More about Genetic variants associated with susceptibility to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in people of European ancestry: a genome-wide association study.

The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database (2017)
Journal Article

Pulmonary rehabilitation is recommended for patients with COPD to improve physical function, breathlessness and quality of life. Using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database in UK, we compared the demographic and clinical paramet... Read More about The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database.

Lung function response and side effects to rapamycin for lymphangioleiomyomatosis: A prospective national cohort study (2017)
Journal Article

© Article author(s) 2018. Rationale Mechanistic target of rapamycin inhibitors reduce loss of lung function in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), although their benefit varies between individuals. We examined lung function response and side effects to r... Read More about Lung function response and side effects to rapamycin for lymphangioleiomyomatosis: A prospective national cohort study.

Transcriptomic gene signatures associated with persistent airflow limitation in patients with severe asthma (2017)
Journal Article

A proportion of severe asthma patients suffers from persistent airflow limitation (PAL), often associated with more symptoms and exacerbations. Little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Here, our aim was to discover unexplored potential mechan... Read More about Transcriptomic gene signatures associated with persistent airflow limitation in patients with severe asthma.

Targeted inhibition of Gq signaling induces airway relaxation in mouse models of asthma (2017)
Journal Article

Obstructive lung diseases are common causes of disability and death worldwide. A hallmark feature is aberrant activation of Gq protein–dependent signaling cascades. Currently, drugs targeting single G protein (heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide–bindin... Read More about Targeted inhibition of Gq signaling induces airway relaxation in mouse models of asthma.

The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream (2017)
Journal Article

Our aim was to evaluate the use and impact of the practice walk test on enrolment, completion, and clinical functional response to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) using the 2015 UK National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pulmonary Rehabil... Read More about The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream.

Azithromycin for treatment of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in adult lung transplant recipients (2017)
Journal Article

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: This review aims to look at the benefits and harms of azithromycin for the treatment of BOS in adult lung transplant recipients.

Weight gain during acute treatment of an initial pulmonary exacerbation is associated with a longer interval to the next exacerbation in adults with cystic fibrosis (2017)
Journal Article

Pathway discovery using transcriptomic profiles in adult-onset severe asthma (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Adult-onset severe asthma is characterized by highly symptomatic disease despite high-intensity asthma treatments. Understanding of the underlying pathways of this heterogeneous disease is needed for the development of targeted treatments... Read More about Pathway discovery using transcriptomic profiles in adult-onset severe asthma.

Age at menarche and lung function: a Mendelian randomization study (2017)
Journal Article

A trend towards earlier menarche in women has been associated with childhood factors (e.g. obesity) and hypothesised environmental exposures (e.g. endocrine disruptors present in household products). Observational evidence has shown detrimental effec... Read More about Age at menarche and lung function: a Mendelian randomization study.

Cathepsin K in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: LAM cell-fibroblast Interactions enhance protease activity by extracellular acidification (2017)
Journal Article

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease in which clonal ‘LAM’ cells infiltrate the lungs and lymphatics. In association with recruited fibroblasts, LAM cells form nodules adjacent to lung cysts. It is assumed LAM nodule derived proteases lea... Read More about Cathepsin K in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: LAM cell-fibroblast Interactions enhance protease activity by extracellular acidification.

Comparable reductions in hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction and markers of airway inflammation after supplementation with 6·2 and 3·1 g/d of long-chain n-3 PUFA in adults with asthma (2017)
Journal Article

Although high dose n-3 PUFA supplementation reduces exercise- and hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB/HIB), there are concurrent issues with cost, compliance and gastrointestinal discomfort. It is thus pertinent to establish the efficacy of l... Read More about Comparable reductions in hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction and markers of airway inflammation after supplementation with 6·2 and 3·1 g/d of long-chain n-3 PUFA in adults with asthma.

Use of novel DNA methylation signatures to distinguish between human airway structural cell types (2017)
Conference Proceeding

INTRODUCTION: Chronic inflammatory and fibrotic lung diseases like asthma, COPD and pulmonary fibrosis are characterised by modified phenotype of the airway structural cells. Airway walls are comprised of a robust epithelial layer that lines the lume... Read More about Use of novel DNA methylation signatures to distinguish between human airway structural cell types.

Investigating genome wide DNA methylation in bronchial and lung fibroblasts from healthy individuals and individuals with COPD (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Rationale: Lung fibroblasts are implicated in respiratory disease pathology including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Phenotypic differences between fibroblasts isolated from the bronchi versus the lung parenchyma have been described bu... Read More about Investigating genome wide DNA methylation in bronchial and lung fibroblasts from healthy individuals and individuals with COPD.

The role of histone arginine methylation in gene expression of airway smooth muscle cells in asthma (2017)
Presentation / Conference

Introduction and objectives: Asthma is estimated to affect at least 300 million people globally. About 25% of the patients do not respond to therapy; therefore we need to develop novel treatments. ASM cells have a crucial role in asthma, contributin... Read More about The role of histone arginine methylation in gene expression of airway smooth muscle cells in asthma.

Beta-agonist overuse and delay in obtaining medical review in high risk asthma: a secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article

Asthma mortality surveys report delays in seeking medical review and overuse of beta-agonist therapy as factors contributing to a fatal outcome. However, the strength of these associations is limited because many asthma deaths are unwitnessed. We und... Read More about Beta-agonist overuse and delay in obtaining medical review in high risk asthma: a secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial.