Publications – Abstracts
The faculty in the Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases is extremely active in clinical trials, national research projects, and sharing their knowledge and expertise with other clinicians and researchers through a prolific number of published studies and articles.
2005
Bleecker E, Rubinfield A, Hedgecock S, Fox H, Surrey K, Reisner C. Add-on omalizumab therapy significantly improves symptom control and reduces exacerbations in patients with inadequately controlled severe persistent asthma despite GINA 2002 step 4 therapy irrespective of maintenance oral corticosteroid (OCS) use. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A359.
Boyd M, Hastie AT, Hawkins GA, Wu M, Foster GC, Bleecker ER, Peters SP. Inducible co-stimulator (ICOS) protein expression in the epithelial cells of nine subjects homozygous for IVS 4 -26 (G/T) before and after allergen challenge [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A100.
Deshpande DA, Pascual RM, Naik S, Billington CK, Yan H, Mitchell C, Eckman D, Benovic JL, Penn RB. Structure-function analysis of the human cysteinyl leukotriene (CysLT) type 1 receptor (CysLT1R) [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A502.
Guo M, Wang S, Fontana MF [sic] [Fontana ME], Valancius CA, Pascual RM, Panettieri RA Jr, Tilley SL, Koller BH, Penn RB. Mechanisms of cytokine-mediated beta-2-adrenergic receptor (beta2AR) desensitization in airway smooth muscle (ASM) [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A505.
Hastie AT, Moore W, Larj M, Krings J, Wu M, Hawkins GA, Meyers DA, Peters SP, Bleecker ER. Lung function, sputum, and exhaled breath characteristics of severe asthmatics compared to nonsevere asthmatics [abstract]. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005;115(2 Suppl 1):S269.
Hastie AT, Moore WC, Larj MJ, Foster GC, Krings J, Smith R, Meyers DA, Peters SP, Bleecker ER. Sputum cell, cytokine, chemoki0ne [sic], growth factor, and receptor characteristics of severe asthmatics compared to nonsevere asthmatics [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A313.
Hawkins GA, Ampleford EJ, Peters SP, Tantisira KG, Meyers DA, Weiss ST, Bleecker ER. Analysis of ADRB2 polymorphisms in Caucasian and African American asthma populations [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A30.
Laber D, Hastie AT, Wu M, Xu J, Bleecker ER, Peters SP. Increased expression of macrophage scavenger receptor A1 on macrophage/monocytes following segmental allergen challenge in asthmatic and nonatopic, nonasthmatic control subjects [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A70.
Larj MJ, Hastie AT, Moore WC, Foster GC, Wu M, Krings J, Smith R, Meyers DA, Peters SP, Bleecker ER. Cytokine concentrations in severe asthmatics compared with nonsevere asthmatics in exhaled breath condensate [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A844.
Loza MJ, Foster S, Ghandi [sic] U [Gandhi U], Peters SP, Penn RB. Regulation of T cells by beta-agonists and PGE2: differential effects associated with disparate PKA-dependent signaling [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A905.
McGee MP, Hite RD, Morris PE, Li L. Profiling complex reactions pathways by osmotic stress: the generation of coagulation factor Xa in diluted plasma [abstract]. Biophys J 2005;88(1 Pt 2 Suppl):582A.
Meyers DA, Hawkins GA, Tantisira K, Ampleford EJ, Hernandez M, Richter B, Peters SP, Liggett SB, Weiss ST, Bleecker ER. Detailed sequence and haplotype analysis of the beta-2 adrenergic receptor gene in Caucasians and African Americans [abstract]. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005;115(2 Suppl 1):S148-S149.
Moore W, Calhoun W, Castro M, Chung F, Erzurum S, Jarjour N, Wenzel S, Peters SP, Bleecker ER. Safety of investigative bronchoscopy in severe asthma [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A241.
Ohar JA, Ampleford EJ, Chatterjee AB, Sterling DA, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA. Association of sequence variations of IL-13 gene with COPD [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A399.
Perry CD, Hastie AT, Wu M, Bleecker ER, Peters SP. Increased expression of inducible costimulator ligand, B7H2, on bronchoalveolar lavage cells following segmental allergen challenge in asthmatic and nonatopic, nonasthmatic control subjects [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A904.
Wenzel SE, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER. Polymorphisms in interleukin-4 receptor alpha (IL-4R alpha) are associated with a greater risk of near-fatal events in severe asthma [abstract]. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2(Abstr Issue):A31.
Basehore MJ, Bleecker ER, Lange LA, Harkins MS, Ampleford EJ, Moore WC, Meyers DA, Howard TD. Polymorphisms in the Phospholipase A2 Group 2D (PLA2G2D) gene on chromosome 1 are associated with asthma in U.S. Hispanics [abstract]. In: Abstracts of the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics; 2004 Oct 26-30; Toronto (Ontario) (Canada). Bethesda (MD): American Society of Human Genetics, 2004;:abstr 2226.