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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…
Determine the existence of a relation between GER and apnea and their underlying mechanisms, in infants *37 weeks * 12 months.
To determine whether pulmonary rehabilitation prior to bariatric surgery leads to improved and sustained asthma control (ACQ) as compared to bariatric surgery alone in patients with morbid obesity and not optimally controlled asthma.Secondary aims…
-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…
Clarify the effect of 5T polymorphism with or without another CF causing mutation on the other allele, on the CFTR function.
- To study the clinical characteristics and disease course of patients with LEMS with or without SCLC- To identify the characteristics of the humoral or cellular immune response that are associated with the prolonged survival of patients with SCLC…
We aim to assess gene expression patterns in cilia-producing cells from healthy controls to develop a candidate gene list for PCD.
Main objective: To investigate differential gene-expression in nasal epithelium of asthmatics in complete remission, in clinical remission, not in remission and healthy controls.
Study 1: The purpose of this study is to gain more insight in the characteristics that are related to vascular damage at a young age, and particularly to detect if obesity is related to vascular damage (and thus the risk of cardiovascular disease in…
With this study we aim to provide insight in the role of pulmonary RAS in the pathogenesis of ARDS in neonates and children. This study is performed in the context of a comparative study assessing the impact of age on the pulmonary RAS in ARDS. We…
1. To predict the clinical course (in terms of occurrence of ALI and ARDS, duration of mechanical ventilation, need for renal replacement therapy, length of ICU-stay, length of hospital-stay, ICU-mortality, 30-day mortality) in patients after…
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…
Identification of protein profile differences between laryngeal cancer of young and elderly patients. Secondary objective is to identify differences between protein interaction network in cancer and healthy tissue in young and elderly laryngeal…
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…
In this explorative study, we aim to investigate whether MVR obtained with Doppler flow velocity, is a better predictor of adverse outcome than PVR obtained with Swan-Ganz measurements.
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…
Primary Objective: To identify new clinical phenotypes in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using a cluster analysis.Secondary Objectives: To:- identify clinical phenotypes (based on e.g. lung function parameters,…
The primary objective of this study is to determine the eosinophil lifespans under inflammatory conditions in the blood and lungs of patients with eosinophilic asthma
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