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Defective respiratory tract immune surveillance in asthma : A primary causal factor in disease onset and progressionThe relative importance of respiratory viral infections vs inhalant allergy in asthma pathogenesis is the subject of ongoing debate.
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Rhinovirus exacerbates house-dust-mite induced lung disease in adult miceIn this study, we combined human-rhinovirus infection with a clinically relevant mouse model of aero-allergen exposure using house-dust-mite in an attempt to...
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Comparative drug screening in NUT midline carcinomaThe NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a rare but fatal cancer for which systematic testing of therapy options has never been performed.
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The concentration of iron in real-world geogenic PM10 is associated with increased inflammation and deficits in lung function in miceMineral dusts in the occupational setting are associated with poor lung health, however very little is known about the impact of heterogeneous community...
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Gender and the active smoking and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein relation in late adolescence.This study examines the effect of smoking on high-sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) levels, and the interactive effects of sex and OC use on this relationship in an...
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Comment on "Drug discovery: Turning the titanic"We propose that the molecular and cellular events that govern a resolving, rather than an evolving, disease may reveal new druggable pathways.
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Rett syndrome: establishing a novel outcome measure for walking activity in an era of clinical trials for rare disordersThis study investigated the capacity of three accelerometer-type devices to measure walking activity in Rett syndrome
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Genome-wide association study of vitamin D levels in children: replication in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) studyThis genome-wide association study (GWAS) utilises data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study for 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels...
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Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: Mental health diagnoses associated with increased riskThis WA data linkage study aims to assess whether maternal mental health problems are associated with worse child development outcomes, children’s safety and...
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Germ-line and somatic DICER1 mutations in pineoblastomaThis study suggests that germ-line DICER1 mutations make a clinically significant contribution to PinB, establishing DICER1 as an important susceptibility...