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Quantify inflammatory response (through IL-8 production) of bronchial (both commercial available cells and cultivated brushed infant cells) when exposing these to gastric juice from: hospitalized Infants, before and during PPI treatment and age…
-To assess the central chemosensitivity by an carbon dioxide rebreathing test-To assess mouth occlusion pressures during the carbon dioxide rebreathing test-To study the relation between these results and the results obtained with the MRI and…
Main objective: To investigate differential gene-expression in nasal epithelium of asthmatics in complete remission, in clinical remission, not in remission and healthy controls.
To investigate the changes in facial- and hand analysis in patients with acromegaly as a result of medical treatment and pituitary surgery, and to investigate the changes in relational proportions between facial- and hand structures, incidence and…
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:To determine the contractile strength of diaphragm fibers of COPD patients before and after in vitro exposure to CK-107. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:To determine the contractile strength of latissimus dorsi fibers of COPD patients before…
Major objectives:- To determine the role of small airways abnormalities in the clinical manifestations of asthma;- To evaluate which (combination of) clinical methods best assesses the abnormalities of small airways and large airways disease in…
Discover diagnostic biomarkers for disease severity. Increase the insight in the epidemiology of viral infections in the primary, secondary and tertiary care facilities and in the pathogenesis of and immunological response against viral infections.
To compare the levels of vitamin D in subjects with non-atopic asthma to those in subjects with atopic asthma and those in healthy non-atopic subjects
Questions/aimsTo study the effects of dynamic hyperinflation on pulmonary hemodynamics and right and left ventricular function we formulated the following questions.Do COPD patients with dynamic hyperinflation have a more impaired response of stroke…
Our hypothesis is that antibodies of COPD patients contribute to inflammatory processes leading to cell death, and that the level of cytotoxicity differs between COPD patients and healthy volunteers. The prime aim is to detect differences in…
To assess whether Th17 cells play a central role in COPD, CF and pneumonia pathogenesis
Validation of microbiological analyses of BAL (broncho alveolar lavage) fluid in patients suspected of nosocomial bacterial aspiration pneumonia.
We postulate that exhaled molecular profiling obtained from *breathprints* by electronic nose:1. Will discriminate eosinophilic asthma from non-eosinophilic asthma2. Is associated with individual biomarkers and specific proteomic profiles in induced…
To determine the genetic risk of susceptibility to, or severity of community-acquired pneumonia by comparing the interpersonal genetic variation of the host immune response of patients with community-acquired pneumonia to healthy controls and by…
We hypothesize that ER stress contributes to epithelial dysfunction in Z-AATD, resulting in enhanced inflammation. In addition, we hypothesize that the airways of Z-AATD patients are particularly prone to bacterial infection and colonization through…
Objective of this study is to provide evidence for the induction of AGEs in blood and tissue in patients with septic shock.
With this project we aim to clarify the differences in airway pathophysiology between asthmatics and healthy controls that underlie the prolonged survival of virus and the exaggerated inflammation in virus-induced exacerbations of asthma. We will…
Primary Objective: 1) To investigate if the intestinal permeability acutely increases during physical activity (submaximal cycle ergometry or ADL test) in clinically stable patients with moderate to severe COPD; 2) To investigate if the intestinal…
Primary objectives:-Compare the stride-interval correlations (α) of gait in COPD patients with healthy age matched adults using accelerometers.-Investigate if this information is clinically useful to distinguish between GOLD stages 1+2 / 3 / 4.…
To obtain insight in the role of the innate immune response, especially Type 1 interferons, in the pathogenesis of RSV LRTI. New techniques are used to unravel the local (nasopharyngeal) immunological milieu during viral LRTI. The hypothesis is that…