Research & Publications
Examples of Recent or Ongoing Research Activities:
Asthma, Airways Disease, and
Airway Hyperreactivity
Clinical and In Vivo Projects
- Safety of regularly used beta2-agonists
- Protective mechanisms controlling acute airway reactions
- Significance of late phase reactions in abnormal airway reactivity
- Epidemiology of airway hyperreactivity
- Leukotriene antagonists in the treatment of airways disease
- Inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of airway disease
Basic and In Vitro Projects
- Role of inflammatory cells recruited to the lung in producing
lung injury
- Function of ciliated respiratory epithelium and response to
environmental and inflammatory stressors; epithelium in airway
remodeling.
- Eosinophil-fibroblast interactions and collagen gene expression
- Molecular biology of beta-adrenergic receptor - GTP-binding
protein interaction
- Mechanics of inflammatory cell recruitment to the lung
- Molecular mechanisms of programmed cell death in eosinophils
- Cytokine networking in allergic asthma
Mechanisms of Acute Lung Injury
and the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Clinical and In Vivo Projects
- Physiology of ARDS
- Pharmacological and ventilator strategies in ARDS
- Predictors of outcome
Basic and in Vitro Projects
- Cytokine networking in ARDS
Tobacco Research and Treatment
Other Research Activities
Sarcoidosis
- Predictors of relapse in sarcoidosis
- Noncaseating granuloma - decision analysis and sarcoidosis
Epithelial Biology
- Pathophysiology of ciliary function
- Cloning of structural proteins in cilia
Publications
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